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April 1, 2018
Italian painter Cristofano Allori was died on 1 April 1621.

March 26, 2018
Walters Art Museum Art of the Day: Portrait of Gerolamo Mercuriale

March 16, 2018
Open now at the Uffizi Gallery, Spain and Italy in Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Europe , will be on view until May 27, 2018.

March 3, 2018
On View: From Brooklyn to the Bargello: Giovanni della Robbia, the Antinori lunette and Stefano Arienti

February 15, 2018
Call for Session Proposals: IAS-Sponsored SCSC 2018 Sessions

February 10, 2018
IASblog has achieved a new landmark of 10,000 followers!

February 6, 2018
Call for Applications: IAS Conference Travel Grant for Modern Topics Eligible scholars must be: U.S. or foreign scholars holding a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree Undertaking transoceanic travel Planning to present a paper in an IAS-sponsored session at any conference where the IAS is sponsoring a session on Italian art and architecture of the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, such as: College Art Association (CAA), American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS), Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).

February 1, 2018
Italian wood- and ivory-turner Giovanni Ambrogio Maggiore was last recorded on 1 February 1598 working for the Medici court in Florence.

January 30, 2018
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN EDITED VOLUME: Emotions, Art, and Religion in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, c. 1400–1800 The “emotional turn” has prompted numerous studies on the history of emotions in the medieval and early modern periods.

January 20, 2018
On January 20, 1589, Stefano Amadei was born in Perugia, and he died on the same day in 1644.