15th century

July 29, 2016
The Florentine painter Pesellino died on 29 July 1457.

July 24, 2016
Last Call: Aldus Manutius: The Venetian Renaissance Owing to its popularity, “ Aldo Manuzio.

June 13, 2016
Word of the Day: paideia

June 10, 2016
Check out the Getty’s video: “Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer Process,” which explains and demonstrates the design transfer technique used by numerous Italian artists in the 15th and 16th centuries.

June 7, 2016
Closing Soon: “Aldus Manutius and the Renaissance in Venice” There are less than two weeks left to view the groundbreaking exhibition, “Aldus Manutius and the Renaissance in Venice,” currently on display at Venice’s Gallerie dell’Accademia.

May 17, 2016
Forthcoming Release : L’Album des ‘Disegni di Antonio Pollaiuolo’ This book offers an unprecedented look at a collection of 23 drawings dating from the 15th century.

May 17, 2016
The finale of a famed Florentine: Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, died 17 May 1510.

May 5, 2016
On 5 May 2016 at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Leo S. Olschki publishers presented their two-volume work Codice Rustici: un viaggio attraverso la Storia, l’Arte, e la Chiesa della Firenze del XV secolo (The Rustici Codex: a trip across history, art and the church of Florence in the 15th century) , edited by Elena Gurrieri with a critical edition of the manuscript by Kathleen Olive and Nerida Newbigin and a collection of interpretive essays by various scholars.

April 5, 2016
Painter Lazzaro Bastiani died on 5 April 1512.

April 5, 2016
A big day for builders: 5 April marks the feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer, a former Dominican friar and patron saint of those in the field of construction.