1677 in art
Events from the year 1677 in art.
Events
- Mosaics are created in St Mark's Basilica, Venice, from cartoons by Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.
Paintings
- Claude Lorrain paints The Voyage of Jacob in his late Roman period.
- Thomas Flatman paints miniature portraits.
- Pietro Giarguzzi - The Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin Mary at San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
- Abraham Hondius - The Frozen Thames, a view over the Thames to the old London Bridge during the Little Ice Age.
- Pieter de Hooch - A Musical Party in a Courtyard.
- Charles Le Brun - Apotheose of Louis XIV.
- Jan Siberechts – ''A View from Richmond Hill''
Births
- October 23 – Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter
- November 29 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician
- date unknown
- *Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter
- *Lovia Casalina, Italian woman portrait-painter
- *Louis Du Guernier, French engraver
- *Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painter and printmaker
- *Jean Raoux, French painter
- probable
- *Antonio Dardani, Italian painter
- *Gasparo Lopez, Italian painter of flowers
Deaths
- March 16 – Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes
- March 25 – Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian-born etcher working in England
- April 20 – Mathieu Le Nain, French painter
- August 28 – Wallerant Vaillant, Flemish painter and mezzotint engraver, painted A Young Boy Copying a Painting and engraved Woman Peeling Fruit and A Boy Drawing a Bust of the Emperor Vitellius
- November 9 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter
- November 18 - Claude Audran the Elder, French engraver
- date unknown
- *Giacomo Alboresi, Italian painter
- *Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher
- *Jan Peeters I, Flemish seascape painter
- *Cristoforo Savolini, Italian painter of altarpieces
- *Wang Jian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty