II Guercino was born in Cento, near Ferrara, Italy. His real name was Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
He was nicknamed II Guercino, "the squinting one", due to a physical defect. In Rome, he played an important role in the evolution of Roman High Baroque. Ludovico Carracci was one of his initial instructors. After the death of Guido Reni in 1642, he became the leading painter in Bologna. -1591
Carlo Rainaldi, an Italian architect, died in Rome
He was a representative of Roman Baroque Classic art. He constructed churches, palaces and sepulchral monuments. -1691
Jan van Huysum, a Dutch painter, died in Amsterdam
He basically painted still-lifes, specially fruits and flowers. He also painted Italian heroic landscapes. -1749
Ivan Tisor, a Croatian painter, was born in Viskovci, near Djakov
He painted religious and mythological pictures, allegorical scenes and subjects from folklore, as well as contemporary political portraiture. Among his most accomplished works are a portrait of the politician "Nikola Tomasic", a "Self-portrait with Wife" and a "Self-portrait". He produced fresh, directly observed watercolors as in "The Field at Grobnik" and illustrated the Osterreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie in "Wort und Bild". -1870
Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter and graphic designer, died in Munich
He was a disciple of L. Schnorr von Carosfeld. He was professor of the Munich Academy. He was the most important master of the late Romanticism in southern Germany. He painted frescoes and illustrated books using xylography. -1871
Franz Marc, a German painter and printmaker, was born in Munich
He was the founding member of "The Blue Rider" group. He edited, along with Wassily Kandinsky, "Der Blaue Reiter" the journal of this group. He did several animal studies, since he considered nonhuman forms of life to be the most expressive manifestation of the vital natural force. -1880
Max Lieberman, a German painter, died in Berlin at the age of 87
He was influenced by Mankacsy and Josef Israels. Millet also influenced him during his stay in Paris when Lieberman joined the Impressionist Movement. He lived in Munich and changed to drawing instead of painting. Later in his life, he returned to painting. -1935
Arthur von Kampf, a German painter, died in Castrop-Rauxel
He studied at the Düsseldorf Academy. He later directed the Berlin School of Plastic Arts 1915-1924. He painted historical monuments and portraits. -1950
The British architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, died in London. He was born on November 9, 1880, in London
He designed numerous public buildings in the eclectic style of simplified historical modes often termed 20th-century traditionalism. He was primarily a church builder, his greatest individual commission being for the new Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. The construction of this massive Gothic structure, begun in 1904, spanned Scott's entire working life and was completed only in 1980 by two of his associates. He was knighted after the consecration ceremony in 1924. He is also known for the creation of public telephone boxes (booths); the first of these models appeared in 1924, and the iconic red "traditional" telephone box was introduced in 1936. -1960
A painting by Titian was stolen at Longleat House, Wilshire to Lord Bath
The painting measured 60 x 45 cm. The 130-room house had only twelve people living inside it. The painting was titled "Rest on the Escape from Egypt", and reproduced a scene from the Bible where the Virgin Mary is holding Jesus, while Saint Joseph is looking at them. -1995
Colombian police recovered eight paintings and a sculpture stolen from a gallery in Bogotá, Colombia
The works were created by Luis Caballero, Alejandro Obregón, and Edgar Negret and were valued at around $800,000 dollars. Three people were detained, according to the police. -1996
It was reported that Salvador Dali´s exhibition which belonged to the Albaretto family, were fakes
The organizers of an exhibition on the Spanish painter Salvador Dali in the Bricherasio Palace in Turin, Italy, rejected an accusation made in the French weekly "Paris Match" that the greater part of the works they were exhibiting, which belonged to the Albaretto family, were fakes. The claim was made by Robert Descharnes, Dali's ex-assistant and president of a society that from 1986 until 2004 possesses the rights on the painter's images. -1997
An exhibition on the full variety of Paula Rego's work, from 1959 to 1995, was displayed for the first time at the Tate Liverpool
Born in Lisbon and trained at the Slade School in London, Rego explored a remarkable range of styles before defining her mature identity. Her best known later works were seen in a new light, with the help of preparatory drawings never exhibited before. -1997
Two giant stones in Avebury, Wiltshire, each standing about 16ft and weighing more than 20 tons, appeared to be leaning at a precarious angle
Comparisons between drawings made by the eccentric prehistorian William Stukeley in the 1720s and a 3D computer-generated model produced in 1997 confirmed that the two massive standing stones at Avebury, Wiltshire, one of Britain's most important prehistoric monuments have tilted significantly during the past 250 years. But because they are irregularly shaped and have stood for 4,000 years, archaeologists could not be certain they really were in danger of falling over. The twin monoliths known as the Cove are among the largest stones at the Neolithic monument that dwarfs Stonehenge. -1998
An exhibition on the work of the painter Patrick Caulfield was on view at the Hayward Gallery in London
This was Caulfield's first retrospective for 18 years. Witty ambiguities and illusions abounded in these intriguingly misleading paintings. -1999
The Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Mein (MMK) opened the exhibit titled "Change of Scene XVII". With this exhibit a short era drew to a close for the MMK
On the one hand, this first 'Change of Scene' in the third millennium marked the end of an old exhibition rhythm. Yet, at the same time it heralded the beginning of a new one. Since the MMK first opened, its six-monthly exhibitions have always started either at the beginning of June or the end of January. As of Change of Scene XVIII, scheduled to open at the end of September 2000, the museum would be adapting the rhythm of the international norm. -2000
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