1678 in art

Events

• Louis Chéron wins the Prix de Rome for a second time.

Works

• Gianlorenzo Bernini - the Tomb of Pope Alexander VII
• Albrecht Kauw - Still Life
• Murillo - The Immaculate Conception and The Christ Child Distributing Bread to Pilgrims
• Ary de Vois - ''The scholar Adriaan van Beverland with a prostitute''

Births

• June 3 - Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian painter, sculptor and architect
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Francesco Bagnoli, Italian painter of still-life paintings
• *Antonio Baroni, Italian painter active in Verona
• *Carlo Bolognini, Italian painter of quadratura
• *François Coudray, French sculptor
• *Tommaso Dossi, Italian painter from Verona
• *Alexis Grimou, French painter
• *Bernardo Schiaffino, Italian sculptor
• *Alonso Miguel de Tovar, Spanish painter

Deaths

• January 29 - Giulio Carpioni, Italian painter and etcher
• January 20 - Antonio de Pereda, Spanish painter
• April 13 - Pieter van Anraedt, Dutch Golden Age painter of history scenes
• April 22 - Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives
• June
• *Pieter Jansz van Asch, Dutch painter
• *Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Dutch painter
• July 26 - Orsola Maddalena Caccia, Italian woman painter
• September 1 - Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter
• September 8 - Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter of grotesque paintings and portraitures
• October - Caesar van Everdingen, Dutch portrait painter
• October 12 - Pieter Codde, Dutch painter of genre works
• October 18 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter
• October 19 - Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter
• November 20 - Karel Dujardin, Dutch animal and landscape painter
• December 9 - Jürgen Ovens, German painter
• date unknown
• *Dominique Barrière, French painter and engraver
• *Marco Boschini, Italian painter in Venice
• *Pierre Daret, French portrait painter and engraver
• *Bernabé de Ayala, Spanish historical painter
• *Domenico de Benedettis, Italian painter
• *Vicente Salvador Gómez, Spanish Baroque painter
• *Giulio Cesare Milani, Italian painter
• *Giacomo Torelli, Italian set designer and engraver
• *Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian engraver especially of contemporary and antique structures in Rome
• *Matthew Snelling, English miniature painter
• *Pieter Hermansz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age genre art painter
• probable
• *Domenico Ambrogi, Italian painter from Bologna
• *Cornelis de Neve, Flemish portrait painter