Events from the year 1666 in art. June 1–4 – Four Days' Battle, a naval battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War at which Willem van de Velde the Elder is...

1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1666th year...

in art 1666 in art – Death of Frans Hals, Jan Vermeer paints Girl with a Pearl Earring 1665 in art – Death of Nicolas Poussin 1664 in art 1663 in art 1662...

The year 1666 in science and technology involved some significant events. December 22 – French Academy of Sciences first meets. Publication of Stanisław...

Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She...

publications of 1666. June 4 – Molière's comedy of manners Le Misanthrope is premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris by the...

Irish or France). In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine...

Metropolitan Museum of Art Part of a Meissen porcelain tea and chocolate service, c. 1725, given to Vittorio Amadeo II, King of Sardinia (1666–1732) by Augustus...

Lucretia is a 1666 history painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. It is...

In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art...