1687 in art

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Events

• September 26 - An Ottoman Turk ammunition dump inside the Parthenon at Athens is ignited by Venetian bombardment. The resulting explosion severely damages the building and its sculptures.

Paintings

• Alida Withoos - Pineapple (painting of the first pineapple bred in Europe; not extant)

Births

• June 6 - Giambattista Pittoni, Italian painter of religious, historical, and mythological subjects (d. 1767)
• date unknown
  • Huang Shen, Chinese painter (d. 1772)
  • Jin Nong, Chinese painter of mei blossoms, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (d. 1763/1764)

Deaths

• June - Juriaen van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1632)
• September 10 - Willem Wissing, Dutch portrait artist (b. 1656)
• October 18 - Pietro Liberi, Italian painter nicknamed il Libertino (b. 1605)
• date unknown
  • Giacomo di Castro, Italian painter (b. 1624)
  • Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter of frescoes (b. 1604)
  • Bernhard Keil, Danish painter (b. 1597)
  • Simon de Leal Leon, Spanish painter (b. 1610)
  • Marco Liberi, Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings (b. 1640)