18th century

March 24, 2015
Giuseppe Bernardi , called Torretto, was born on 24 March 1694 in the Veneto town of Pagnano.

March 4, 2015
Italian portrait painter Giuseppe Ghislandi, known as Fra Vittore Galgario, was baptized on 4 March 1655 in Bergamo.

March 3, 2015
Italian architect, engineer, and author Tommaso Temanza was born on 3 March 1705 in Venice.

February 28, 2015
Italian cardinal and art patron Pietro Ottoboni died on 28 February 1740 in Rome.

February 8, 2015
Painter Corrado Giaquinto was born on 8 February 1703 in Molfetta near Bari.

January 27, 2015
Painter Bernardino Nocchi died on 27 January 1812.

November 30, 2014
Jesuit Artist Andrea Pozzo, Born on 30 November 1642 in Trent.

September 27, 2014
Pastellist and painter Rosalba Carriera was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome on 27 September 1705.

August 3, 2014
Archaeologists discovered the Seated Mercury on this day in 1758 in the peristyle of the Villa of Papyri at Herculaneum .

December 24, 2013
SInce 1964, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has displayed its Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche .