17th Century

August 27, 2015
Sicilian painter Pietro Novelli died on 27 August 1647 in Palermo.

August 2, 2015
Baroque architect Francesco Borromini died on 2 August 1667, just shy of his sixty-eighth birthday.

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.

July 12, 2015
Sculptor François Duquesnoy died 12 July 1643 in Rome.

April 13, 2015
Genoese artist Bartolomeo Biscaino was baptized on 14 April 1629.

April 1, 2015
Italian author, artist, and collector Carlo Ridolfi was born on 1 April 1594 in Lonigo, a city in the Veneto not far from Vicenza.

March 20, 2015
Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni after his birthplace of San Giovanni Valdarno, was born there on 20 March 1592.

February 24, 2015
Mattia Preti was born on 24 February 1613 in Taverna, Calabria.

February 3, 2015
Venetian painter Antonio Molinari died on 3 February 1704 in his hometown.

November 10, 2014
Bernardo Barbatelli (Bernardino Poccetti) was Buried on November 10 in 1612.