October 31, 2013
On this day in 1512, Pope Julius II dedicated Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling in Rome which shows scenes from Genesis flanked by Old Testament prophets, Roman Sibyls, and the ancestors of Jesus.

October 31, 2013
Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli dismantles church to rebuild it at MoMA PS1 in New York

October 31, 2013
Baccio della Porta, known as Fra Bartolommeo, died on this day in 1517 in Florence.

October 29, 2013
blantonmuseum : Marcantonio and Agostino de Musi called Agostino Veneziano Raimondi Lo Stregozzo [The Witches’ Procession], after Raphael or Giulio Romano, 1520’s Engraving The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002 Another haunting work that puts us in the Halloween spirit!

October 29, 2013
Speleologists (those who study caves) have mapped the eleven aqueducts built by Roman engineers to supply the ancient city with fresh water.

October 28, 2013
CFP: CRUSADES

CFP: CRUSADES: MEDIEVAL WORLDS IN CONFLICT 28 February – 1 March 2014, Saint Louis University, Third International Symposium on Crusade Studies. […]

October 28, 2013
Architect Emilio De Fabris was born in Florence on this day in 1807.

October 27, 2013
Word of the Day: tombolo

October 27, 2013
Tina Lepri and Ermanno Rivetti report in The Art Newspaper that Naples’s Girolamini church complex is now under the management of the Italian Cultural Minister after thousands of manuscripts and other artifacts were stolen by the now-jailed former director of the library.

October 27, 2013
CFP: IAS AT SAH

The IAS is actively seeking proposals for the 2015  Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians to be held in Chicago […]