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