Anne Leader

May 3, 2018
On 3 May 1525, the painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, also known as Il Sodoma , received a contract to paint a double-sided banner for the Compagnia di San Sebastiano in Camollia near Siena.

May 3, 2018
Aldo Rossi, Italian architect, theorist, and designer, was born on 3 May 1931 in Milan, the city where he spent a good portion of his career and died at age 66 in 1997.

May 2, 2018
Leonardo da Vinci died on 2 May 1519 in Amboise, France.

April 19, 2018
Paolo Caliari, known as Veronese after his birthplace, died on 19 April 1588 in Venice, where he spent the majority of his career.

April 6, 2018
Bolognese painter Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino, died on 6 April 1641, the same day as his one of his greatest heroes, Raphael , who also died on this day almost a century earlier.

March 29, 2018
Work on the tribune of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan began on 29 March 1492.

March 28, 2018
Baccio della Porta, known as Fra Bartolommeo, was born on 28 March 1472 in Florence.

March 14, 2018
Giuseppe Maria Crespi was born 14 March 1665 in Bologna.

March 12, 2018
Dalmatian sculptor Francesco Laurana was dead by 12 March 1502 in the city of Marseille, France.

March 5, 2018
Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio after his hometown, died there on 5 March in 1534.