15th century

May 25, 2014
In anticipation of the 2014 IAS/Kress Lecture by Dr. Jean Cadogan , “ Maravigliose istorie : The Mural Decoration of the Camposanto in Pisa,” I share some photos of Pisa.

February 14, 2014
Happy Birthday Leon Battista Alberti!

January 22, 2014
Through March 30, 2014, four small devotional paintings by Piero della Francesca, never exhibited together before now, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

December 21, 2013
Happy Birthday Masaccio !

November 24, 2013
A double-sided drawing by Andrea Mantegna sold at auction on 8 November 2013 for €509,650 ($680,000).

November 2, 2013
Just because a city is impoverished does not mean its people are not worthy of great art

October 2, 2013
From Donatello to Lippi: Officina Pratese on view in Prato through 13 January 2014.

September 28, 2013
Face to Face: Flanders, Florence and Renaissance Painting opens today through 13 January at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles.

September 18, 2013
On this day in 1419, painter Gentile da Fabriano requested a letter from Pandolfo III Malatesta , Lord of Fano, Bergamo and Brescia for safe passage to travel to Florence on horseback in the company of seven others.

September 13, 2013
Italian painter and printmaker Andrea Mantegna died on this day in 1506 in Mantua, where he had served the Gonzaga dukes as court artist for almost half a century.