This Day in History

October 31, 2019
Just In Time For Halloween… Cortenova’s “House of Witches.”

October 6, 2019
On this day, 6 October 1478, the plague had made its way to Florence.

September 30, 2019
On this day (30 September) in 1487, Luca Landucci, the apothecary and Florentine diarist, informs us that the relics of Saint Jerome,“were taken from the altar of the Cross at Santa Maria del Fiore and were set in silver and gold, very richly, at a great cost; and then a fine procession was made, and they were replaced in the said chapel with much reverence.

September 23, 2019
To the Moon and Back: The Artistic Career of Emilio Pucci

September 16, 2019
On this day, 15 September 668 A.D., the Eastern Roman Emperor, Constans II Pogonatus , was assassinated whilst at his bath in Syracuse, Sicily.

July 22, 2019
Fra Diamante: Quattrocento Art, Imprisonment and Changing Spirituality

July 1, 2019
Coppo di Marcovaldo: Duecento Soldier and Artist

June 23, 2019
Happy Birthday to the sculptor, jeweler, and stage designer Arnaldo Pomodoro!

June 17, 2019
Livio Agresti and Forlivese Mannerism

June 16, 2019
Filippo Juvarra is believed to have been born on June 16, 1678 in Messina; his father was a silversmith whose approach to applied art and decoration likely influenced his son’s architectural ornamentation.