18th century

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 2, 2013
The Morgan Library draws from its world-renowned collection of eighteenth-century Venetian drawings for the exhibition Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings on view through January 5, 2014.

September 10, 2013
legionofhonormuseum : This pair of architectural fantasies, known as capricci , is part of a recent bequest from the estate of Diana Dollar Knowles and newly on view in Gallery 7.

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 14, 2013
Roderick Conway Morris reviews The Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici (1663-1713): Collector and Patron .

August 1, 2013
thegetty : A view of Rome for the traveler, the tourist and the antiquarian.