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August 19, 2017
Florentine painter Andrea di Bartolo di Simone, known as Andrea del Castagno, died suddenly 19 August 1457.

August 18, 2017
Call For IAS-Sponsored Session Proposals: Leeds International Medieval Congress 2018

August 18, 2017
Guido Reni died 18 August 1642 in Bologna.

August 12, 2017
Saint Clare of Assisi (b.

July 25, 2017
25 July is the feast day of Saint James the Greater.

July 21, 2017
Gates of Paradise Go to Missouri Museum This week a bronze copy of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise” arrived for installation at the Nelson-Atkins Museum.

July 21, 2017
Call for Papers: Processi italiani: Examining Process in Postwar Italian Art, 1945-1980 Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles 2018 Chair: Tenley Bick , Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Washington University Session Abstract: Dominant narratives in modern and contemporary art history have long positioned the 1960s Italian avant-garde Arte Povera—a movement known for ephemeral practices, informalist aesthetics, and “deskilled” procedures—as a subset of process art and post-minimalism, ascribing Italian innovations to movements better associated with British and American artists.

July 19, 2017
Call for Papers: Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies 10-13 May 2018, Western Michigan University The Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium leading to the 2010 publication of San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice introduced new perspectives on Byzantine and Venetian visual and material culture that extended Otto Demus’s survey of Saint Mark’s basilica.

July 16, 2017
The Campanile at Farfa Abbey

June 23, 2017
Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967, quoted in Richard Flood and Frances Morris (eds.