14th century

December 9, 2015
Kristen Streahle , winner of a 2014 IAS Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars , used her award to travel to the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo , where she presented her paper, “TABIMUROLLI MUIDEM REP:“ Pseudo-Kufic, Retrograde Latin, and the Crusades Remembered on the Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri Ceiling.” The richly painted wooden ceiling that adorns the Great Hall of the palace is replete with scenes of epic narratives as well as decorative patterns and inscriptions.

July 16, 2015
Saint Clare of Assisi was born on 16 July 1194 (d. 12 August 1253, canonized 1255) in Assisi.

July 12, 2015
The exhibition, “Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums,” enters its second month today, 12 July, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

February 4, 2015
Italian engineer, wood-carver, and author Mariano di Jacopo, known as Il Taccola, was born on 4 February 1382 in Siena.

October 27, 2014
Italian cardinal and art patron Gentile Partino da Montefiore died on 27 October 1312 in Lucca.

September 28, 2014
Giusto di Giovanni de’ Menabuoi died on 28 September 1390, according to a tomb inscription in Padua Baptistery, which he decorated with frescoes starting in 1375.

September 26, 2014
On 26 September 1997, a series of earthquakes shook central Italy and caused part of the Basilica of Saint Francis at Assisi to collapse.

September 20, 2014
On 20 September 1374, painter Antonio Veneziano registered with the Arte dei Medici e Speziali in Florence .

January 22, 2014
esperanzapinatelli : Giotto, Vault of Scrovegni Chapel, Padua (Fresco, 1305) detail

August 6, 2013
Look but don’t touch!