Blog

Since July 2013, The Italian Art Society has published IASblog to offer news and notes on Italian art and architecture from prehistory to the present day as a complement to our website. IASblog aims for a general audience as well as specialists on Italian art. Submissions are encouraged.

February 6, 2018
Francesco di Lorenzo Mochi died on 6 February 1654 in Rome.

February 4, 2018
Lucius Septimius Severus died 4 February 211.

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 31, 2018
Ettore Sottsass died 31 January 2007.

January 29, 2018
Italian painter and draughtsman Giuliano Bugiardini was born in Florence on 29 January 1475.

January 28, 2018
Much is in dispute about the history of The Etruscan School ( Scuola etrusca ), but 28 January 1883 was the day when the group of Italian and English landscape painters began a yearlong formal association in Rome.

January 28, 2018
Charlemagne died on 28 January 814.

January 27, 2018
Milanese painter and art theorist Gian Paolo Lomazzo died on 27 January 1592.

January 25, 2018
Painter Pompeo Batoni was born on 25 January 1708 in Lucca.

January 25, 2018
Following the assassination of Emperor Caligula the day prior, Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) served his first day as Emperor of Rome on 25 January 41 CE.

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