accademia di san luca

May 2, 2019
On the Tercentenary of the Death of Pierre Le Gros Pierre Le Gros died 300 years ago on 3 May 1719 in Rome where he had been a pre-eminent sculptor.

June 17, 2017
Roman vedutista (view painter) Giovanni Paolo Panini was born on 17 June 1691 in Piacenza.

March 4, 2017
The dawn of a draughtsman: sculptor, painter, and engraver Giuseppe Cades was born on 4 March 1750 in Rome.

April 15, 2016
Pastellist and painter Rosalba Carriera died on 15 April 1757 in Venice.

April 14, 2016
Neoclassical architect and designer Giuseppe Valadier was born on this day, April 14, in 1762.

August 6, 2015
Federico Zuccaro died 6 August 1609 in Ancona.

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

August 22, 2013
On this day in 1582, Florentine sculptor Bartolomeo Ammanati published a letter addressed to the Accademia di San Luca (artists’ guild) denouncing the public display of nude sculpture, including his own Neptune Fountain in the Piazza della Signoria of Florence (1560-75).