June 26, 2016
Roman Emperor Julian was mortally wounded on 26 June 363 CE following a confrontation of Sassanid troops near the Persian city of Samarra (in modern day Iraq).

June 25, 2016
LECTURE AND RECEPTION AT SIXTEENTH CENTURY SOCIETY CONFERENCE, BRUGES On Friday August 19th, the Groeningemuseum and the Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands will host an evening lecture followed by a reception sponsored by the Flemish Research Centre, the Historians of Netherlandish Art , and the Italian Art Society .

June 25, 2016
Painter, sculptor, and performance artist Michelangelo Pistoletto was born on June 25, 1933, in Biella.

June 24, 2016
Today, June 24th, is the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist.

June 22, 2016
Now Open: Caravaggio and the Painters of the North at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza For those tantalized by tenebrism: a fantastic new exhibition, entitled “ Caravaggio and the Painters of the North ,” just opened yesterday (21 June) at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain.

June 18, 2016
Italian modernist Giorgio Morandi died June 18, 1964, in Bologna.

June 18, 2016
Opening Today: “Floating Piers” by Christo at Lake Iseo For those who live in/near Lombardy: Christo’s installation, entitled “The Floating Piers,” opens this coming Saturday, 18 June, on Lake Iseo, east of the Italian city of Bergamo.

June 17, 2016
Penn State University Press publishes Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art by IAS member Frances Gage.

June 16, 2016
Giovan Battista Filippo Basile , who died on this day in 1891, was an Italian architect based in Palermo.

June 15, 2016
Opening Soon: “Floating Piers” by Christo at Lake Iseo For those who live in/near Lombardy: Christo’s installation, entitled “The Floating Piers,” opens this coming Saturday, 18 June, on Lake Iseo, east of the Italian city of Bergamo.