1705 in art

Events

• The Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera becomes the first woman elected to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

Paintings

• Federiko Benković – Juno on the Clouds
• Michael Dahl – Queen Anne
• Sebastiano Ricci
• * The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs
• * ''The Vision of St. Bruno''

Births

• February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French subject painter, and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo
• June 1 – Carl Marcus Tuscher, German-born Danish polymath, portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator
• August 18 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter date unknown
• * Jean Barbault, French painter and engraver
• * Andrés de la Calleja, Spanish painter
• * Andrea Casali, Italian painter of the Rococo period
• * Carlo Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period
• * Claude Drevet – French portrait engraver
• * Robert Feke, American painter
• * Johan Graham, painter from London active in The Hague and Amsterdam
• * Matthäus Günther, German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era
• * Jakob Klukstad, Norwegian wood carver and painter
• * José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor
• * 1704/1705: Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor of German origin

Deaths

• January 5 – Georg Christoph Eimmart, German draughtsman and engraver
• January 12 – Luca Giordano, Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching
• March 28 – Gaspard Rigaud, French painter and portraitist
• June 16 – Adriaen van der Cabel, Dutch painter of the Dutch school
• July 16 – François Lespingola, French sculptor
• September 15 – Orazio Talami, Italian Baroque painter date unknown
• * Zhu Da, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher
• * Claude Bertin, French sculptor for the Palace of Versailles
• * Giuseppe Diamantini, Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period
• * Antonio Giusti, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence
• * Andrea Miglionico, Italian painter of historical subjects
• * Francisco Meneses Osorio, Spanish painter
• * Daniel Seiter, Viennese-born fresco painter of the Baroque
• * Bada Shanren, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher
• * Zhou Shuxi, female Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty