art history

June 26, 2017
Italian painter, engraver, architect, and theorist Antonio Visentini died on this day – June 26th – in 1782 in his hometown of Venice.

June 25, 2017
Favorite Artwork Fact File Umberto Boccioni.

June 25, 2017
Roberto Cuoghi at the Venice Biennale Roberto Cuoghi’s Imitazione di Cristo (2017) is certainly one of the darker features at a Biennale that has garnered much criticism for being too “hippy,” cheerful, and politically tone-deaf.

June 23, 2017
Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967, quoted in Richard Flood and Frances Morris (eds.

June 19, 2017
On 19 June 1465, the painters Neri di Bicci (1418-92) and Alessio Baldovinetti (1425-99) assessed a painting showing poet Dante Alighieri holding a copy of his literary masterpiece, the Divine Comedy.

June 18, 2017
Maria Lai at documenta 14 With Skulptur Projekte Münster , documenta 14 , and the Venice Biennale now open and going through the fall, the contemporary art world enjoys a rare trifecta of the major continental exhibitions.

June 18, 2017
Sculptor and architectural designer Bartolomeo Ammanati was born 18 June 1511 in Settignano, a village near Florence.

June 15, 2017
Lisa Gherardini (aka Mona Lisa), the wife of Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo, was born on 15 June 1479 in Florence.

June 11, 2017
Painter Erma Bossi was born 11 June 1882 in Pola, a small village near Trieste.

June 10, 2017
Alessandro Algardi died on 10 June 1654 in Rome.