title: 1678 in art
text: # 1678 in art
  
  Events from the year 1678 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Louis Chéron wins the Prix de Rome for a second time.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Gianlorenzo Bernini - the Tomb of Pope Alexander VII (completed during this year)
  * Albrecht Kauw - Still Life
  * Murillo - The Immaculate Conception and The Christ Child Distributing Bread to Pilgrims
  * Ary de Vois - The scholar Adriaan van Beverland with a prostitute
  
  ## Births
  
  * June 3 - Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (died 1745)
  * date unknown
     * Giovanni Francesco Bagnoli, Italian painter of still-life paintings (died 1713)
     * Antonio Baroni, Italian painter active in Verona (died 1746)
     * Carlo Bolognini, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1704)
     * François Coudray, French sculptor (died 1727)
     * Tommaso Dossi, Italian painter from Verona (died 1730)
     * Alexis Grimou, French painter (died 1733)
     * Bernardo Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (died 1725)
     * Alonso Miguel de Tovar, Spanish painter (died 1758)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 29 - Giulio Carpioni, Italian painter and etcher (born 1613)
  * January 20 - Antonio de Pereda, Spanish painter (born 1611)
  * April 13 - Pieter van Anraedt, Dutch Golden Age painter of history scenes (born 1635)
  * April 22 - Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives (born 1611)
  * June
     * Pieter Jansz van Asch, Dutch painter (born 1603)
     * Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Dutch painter (born 1619)
  * July 26 - Orsola Maddalena Caccia, Italian woman painter (b. unknown)
  * September 1 - Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1601)
  * September 8 - Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter of grotesque paintings and portraitures (born 1603)
  * October - Caesar van Everdingen, Dutch portrait painter (born 1616/1617)
  * October 12 - Pieter Codde, Dutch painter of genre works (born 1599)
  * October 18 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (born 1593)
  * October 19 - Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter (born 1627)
  * November 20 - Karel Dujardin, Dutch animal and landscape painter (born 1626)
  * December 9 - Jürgen Ovens, German painter (born 1623)
  * date unknown
     * Dominique Barrière, French painter and engraver (born 1622)
     * Marco Boschini, Italian painter in Venice (born 1613)
     * Pierre Daret, French portrait painter and engraver (born 1604)
     * Bernabé de Ayala, Spanish historical painter (born 1600)
     * Domenico de Benedettis, Italian painter (born 1610)
     * Vicente Salvador Gómez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1637)
     * Giulio Cesare Milani, Italian painter (born 1621)
     * Giacomo Torelli, Italian set designer and engraver (born 1608)
     * Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian engraver especially of contemporary and antique structures in Rome (born 1640)
     * Matthew Snelling, English miniature painter (born 1621)
     * Pieter Hermansz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age genre art painter (born 1618)
  * probable
     * Domenico Ambrogi, Italian painter from Bologna (born 1600)
     * Cornelis de Neve, Flemish portrait painter (born unknown)
  