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 (fresco) 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.

Births

 * October 23 – Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter (died 1755/1759)
 * November 29 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician (died 1746)
 * date unknown
 * Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter (died 1735)
 * Lovia Casalina, Italian woman portrait-painter (died 1702)
 * Louis Du Guernier, French engraver (died 1716)
 * Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painter and printmaker (died 1735)
 * Jean Raoux, French painter (died 1734)
 * probable
 * Antonio Dardani, Italian painter (died 1735)
 * Gasparo Lopez, Italian painter of flowers (died 1732)

Deaths

 * March 16 – Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes (born 1617)
 * March 25 – Wenceslaus Hollar (Václav Hollar), Bohemian-born etcher working in England (born 1607)
 * April 20 – Mathieu Le Nain, French painter (born 1607)
 * August 28 – Wallerant Vaillant, Flemish painter and mezzotint engraver (born 1623), 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 (born 1603)
 * November 18 - Claude Audran the Elder, French engraver (born 1597)
 * date unknown
 * Giacomo Alboresi, Italian painter (born 1632)
 * Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher (born 1618)
 * Jan Peeters I, Flemish seascape painter (born 1624)
 * Cristoforo Savolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (born 1639)
 * Wang Jian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1598)