1705 in art

Events from the year 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 (died 1765), and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo
 * June 1 – Carl Marcus Tuscher, German-born Danish polymath, portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator (died 1751)
 * August 18 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter (died 1775)
 * date unknown
 * Jean Barbault, French painter and engraver (died 1765/1766)
 * Andrés de la Calleja, Spanish painter (died 1785)
 * Andrea Casali, Italian painter of the Rococo period (died 1784)
 * Carlo Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (died 1781)
 * Claude Drevet – French portrait engraver (died 1782)
 * Robert Feke, American painter (died 1750)
 * Johan Graham, painter from London active in The Hague and Amsterdam (died 1775)
 * Matthäus Günther, German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era (died 1788)
 * Jakob Klukstad, Norwegian wood carver and painter (died 1773)
 * José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor (died 1770)
 * 1704/1705: Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor of German origin (died 1774)

Deaths

 * January 5 – Georg Christoph Eimmart, German draughtsman and engraver (born 1638)
 * January 12 – Luca Giordano, Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching (born 1634)
 * March 28 – Gaspard Rigaud, French painter and portraitist (born 1661)
 * June 16 – Adriaen van der Cabel, Dutch painter of the Dutch school (born 1631)
 * July 16 – François Lespingola, French sculptor (born 1644)
 * September 15 – Orazio Talami, Italian Baroque painter (born 1624)
 * date unknown
 * Zhu Da, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (born 1626)
 * Claude Bertin, French sculptor for the Palace of Versailles (date of birth unknown)
 * Giuseppe Diamantini, Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period (born 1621)
 * Antonio Giusti, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence (born 1624)
 * Andrea Miglionico, Italian painter of historical subjects (date of birth unknown)
 * Francisco Meneses Osorio, Spanish painter (born 1630)
 * Daniel Seiter, Viennese-born fresco painter of the Baroque (born 1642/1647)
 * Bada Shanren, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (born 1626)
 * Zhou Shuxi, female Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (born 1624)