17th Century

December 12, 2013
Bartolomeo Manfredi died on this day in 1622.

November 24, 2013
thegetty : A gorgeous grape harvest!

November 21, 2013
The church of Santa Maria della Salute was constructed as a votive offering to the Virgin Mary to end the plague of 1630 that killed about a third of the Venetian population.

November 3, 2013
Italian painter Annibale Carracci was baptized on this day in 1560 in Bologna.

September 27, 2013
Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena opens today through 5 January at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. Vanni was Siena’s preeminent artist at the dawn of the Baroque era and a key figure in Italian Counter-Reformation painting.

September 17, 2013
Sculptor Stefano Maderno died on this day in Rome in 1636.

August 31, 2013
Jesuit artist Andrea Pozzo died on this day in 1709 in Vienna, where he was working for members of the Austrian court .

August 15, 2013
artgalleryofontario : Portrait of Cardinal Cosmo de Torres , unknown Zampieri Domenichino, Italian, 1581 – 1641 Oil on canvas Overall: 67.6 x 50.2 cm Anonymous Gift, 1994 © 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario

August 14, 2013
Exhibitions Close Up – Bernini: Sculpting in Clay

August 2, 2013
Italian painter Bernardo Strozzi died in Venice on 2 September 1644.