15th century

October 8, 2014
Fra Filippo Lippi died on 8 October 1469 while working on frescoes for the cathedral of Spoleto.

October 2, 2014
Leonardo da Vinci ‘s Adoration has emerged from the conservation lab of Florence’s Opificio delle Pietre Dure, where it has been under investigation since December 2012.

September 24, 2014
The classical scholar and poet Angelo Ambrogini, known as Poliziano, died on 24 September 1494 at the age of 40.

September 17, 2014
Villa I Tatti On this day in 1440 the Florentine humanist Francesco Berlinghieri was born.

September 12, 2014
On this day in 1439, the young Piero della Francesca (d. 1492) was recorded as assistant to painter Domenico Veneziano (d. 1461), then at work on frescoes in the choir of Sant’Egidio at the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.

August 14, 2014
Jacopo da Montagnana was dead by this day in 1499.

August 5, 2014
A twenty-one-year-old Leonardo da Vinci dated this landscape drawing on this day in 1473.

July 6, 2014
Coinciding with the 450th anniversary of Michelangelo’s death , an exhibition at the Musei Capitolini in Rome has caused a stir with its inclusion of two crucifixes that organizers have tentatively attributed to Michelangelo.

June 7, 2014
thegetty : Medieval family motto week continues!

May 27, 2014
This afternoon in Pisa Jean Cadogan will present “ Maravigliose istorie : The Mural Decoration of the Camposanto in Pisa” as the the annual IAS/Kress Lecture .