art history

November 17, 2016
Painter Bernardo Bellotto Died on 17 November 1780 in Warsaw.

November 12, 2016
Painter, writer, and composer Primo Conti died 12 November 1988 in Fiesole.

November 10, 2016
Painter Giovan Battista Averara May Have Died on 10 November 1548.

November 6, 2016
Three Artists Interpret Three Dimensions Italian contemporary artists, designers, and architects are at the forefront of developing technologies that are being used for both imaginitive recreations of the past as well as envisioning the future and altogether alternative realities.

November 6, 2016
Andy Warhol and Pop Society at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa Pop Society , a retrospective of some of Andy Warhol’s instantly recognizable as well as not-as-well-known work opened at Genova’s Palazzo Ducale in late October and runs through February 2017.

November 3, 2016
Happy Birthday Benvenuto Cellini !

October 31, 2016
Happy Halloween!

October 30, 2016
Coins not the only Currency in Ancient Rome One of the reasons the currency of the Roman Empire was embossed and decorated with images of its leaders and culturally signigicant symbols and landmarks was, as today, to remind users that coins had exchange value because the rulers of the empire had decreed this fact to be so.

October 30, 2016
Julia, the only child of Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) was born on 30 October in 39 BCE.

October 29, 2016
On 29 October, 312, Constantine the Great entered Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge on the previous day.