art history

December 2, 2020
Leading Designer Achille Castiglioni Died in Milan on 2 December 2002.

January 10, 2020
CFA: Raubkunst at the Ringling: A Catalogue in Absentia

A researcher and writer is being sought to investigate the provenance of a quartet of quirkily shaped, sized, and framed 18th Century oil paintings associated with the work of Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754).

June 23, 2019
Santa Maria del Gradaro in Mantua: from Medieval church to site of a Fascist concentration camp

June 23, 2019
Happy Birthday to the sculptor, jeweler, and stage designer Arnaldo Pomodoro!

May 26, 2019
Vincenzo Danti, the author of the Trattato delle perfette proporzioni (1567) , died on May 26, 1576.

May 25, 2019
Venetian artist Ferruccio Bortolozzi died on 25 May 2007, at 87 years of age.

May 23, 2019
Italian sculptor, painter, caricaturist, and author Adriano Cecioni died on 23 May 1886 in Florence.

May 10, 2019
The Piazzetta Provenance Project CFA: Raubkunst at the Ringling: A Catalogue in Absentia Raubkunst at the Ringling: Franz Marc’s Schöpfungsgeschichte has got a lot of attention.

May 10, 2019
10th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture in Milan, Italy

Timothy McCall, Thursday, May 23, 2019, “‘No Great Sin in a Lord’: Galeazzo Maria Sforza and the Materiality of Lordship in Renaissance Milan”

May 9, 2019
Cesare Maccari was born on 9 May 1840 in Siena, where he attended the local Institute of Fine Arts.