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July 11, 2017
Opening Today: A Matter of Perspective: Andrea Pozzo and Jesuit Art in Rome Opening today, 11 July, at the Art Institute of Chicago is an intimate exhibition on the work of Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709) who, in addition to his artistic and architectural proclivities, was a lay brother of the Jesuit order.

July 9, 2017
Christian Boltanski at Museum of Modern Art, Bologna Christian Boltanski has launched a city-wide project dedicated to Bologna, centered at the city’s Museum of Modern Art .

July 9, 2017
Painter, draughtsman, and printmaker Paolo Anesi was born 9 July 1697 in Rome.

July 2, 2017
C outurier , tailor-turned-ready-to-wear maker, and design entrepreneur Pierre (née Pietro) Cardin was born 2 July 1922 in San Biagio di Callalta, near Treviso.

July 1, 2017
Italian cartographer and architect Giovanni Battista Nolli died on 1 July 1756 in Rome.

June 30, 2017
Magazzino Makes Waves for American Fans of Contemporary Italian Art Magazzino Italian Art , the newest contemporary art space nestled in New York’s Hudson River Valley, opened its doors this week.

June 29, 2017
Sculptor Antonio Corradini died in Naples on 29 June 1752.

June 26, 2017
Italian painter, engraver, architect, and theorist Antonio Visentini died on this day – June 26th – in 1782 in his hometown of Venice.

June 25, 2017
Favorite Artwork Fact File Umberto Boccioni.

June 25, 2017
Roberto Cuoghi at the Venice Biennale Roberto Cuoghi’s Imitazione di Cristo (2017) is certainly one of the darker features at a Biennale that has garnered much criticism for being too “hippy,” cheerful, and politically tone-deaf.