August 8, 2014
blantonmuseum : This week’s #FrameFriday features the scrolled edges that encase Bartolomeo Guidobono’s “Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist,” circa 1680-85.

August 8, 2014
On This Day in 1452 (8 December) Florentine Painter Fra Filippo Lippi Fails to Keep a Commitment.

August 5, 2014
institutefinearts : Lantern slide: Agostino Carracci (1557-1602), fresco decoration at Palazzo del Giardino, Parma, photo by IFA professor Donald Posner

August 5, 2014
A twenty-one-year-old Leonardo da Vinci dated this landscape drawing on this day in 1473.

August 5, 2014
Painter and printmaker Antonio Tempesta died on this day in 1630 at age 75.

August 5, 2014
The Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Sodoma , was documented at work in the cloister of Monte Oliveto Maggiore on this day in 1505.

August 3, 2014
Archaeologists discovered the Seated Mercury on this day in 1758 in the peristyle of the Villa of Papyri at Herculaneum .