October 2017 – Page 2 – Italian Art Society

October 23, 2017
On 23 October 1461, Florentine painter Benozzo Gozzoli was contracted to paint an altarpiece for the new oratory of the Compagnia di Santa Maria della Purificazione e di San Zanobi, a youth confraternity sponsored by Cosimo de’Medici at San Marco in Florence.

October 22, 2017
On 22 October 362, a mysterious fire broke out in the temple of Apollo in antioch, consuming the roof of the building and the statue of the god, copied from Phidias’ statue of Zeus at Olympia.

October 22, 2017
Architect Adamo Boari was born 22 October 1863 in Ferrara.

October 19, 2017
Futurist Umberto Boccioni was born on 19 October 1882 in Reggio Calabria.

October 19, 2017
Call for IAS-Sponsored Session Proposals: SAH 2019

Call for IAS-Sponsored Session Proposals: Society for Architectural Historians 24-28 April 2019 Providence, Rhode Island The IAS is seeking proposals for one IAS-affiliated session at the 72nd annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) in Providence, Rhode Island, 24-28 April 2019.

October 18, 2017
Pompeii’s Past Meets Present Artists for Upcoming Exhibition and Permanent Installation Sources report of a dynamic collaboration between the archaeological site of Pompeii and the Neapolitan Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnregina (Madre) to foster a dialogue between past and present in the forthcoming exhibition,“Pompeii at Madre: Archaeological Material” exhibition, opening on 19 November.

Pompeii’s Past Meets Present Artists for Upcoming Exhibition and Permanent Installation Sources report of a dynamic collaboration between the archaeological site of Pompeii and the Neapolitan Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnregina (Madre) to foster a dialogue between past and present in the forthcoming exhibition,“Pompeii at Madre: Archaeological Material” exhibition, opening on 19 November.