art history

October 23, 2016
Today is the feast day of San Giovanni da Capestrano (Kapisztrán János in Hungarian).

October 23, 2016
By the fall of 42 BCE, a little more than two years after they had assassinated Julius Caesar, the Roman senators Brutus and Cassius had managed to raise more than 80,000 troops still loyal to the idea of the Republic.

October 21, 2016
Roman vedutista (view painter) Giovanni Paolo Panini died on 21 October 1765.

October 20, 2016
Perino del Vaga died on 20 October 1547 in Rome at the age of 46.

October 20, 2016
Sculptor Jacopo della Quercia died on 20 October 1438 in Siena.

October 18, 2016
Painter Luca Giordano was born on 18 October 1634 in Naples.

October 17, 2016
Sculptor Baccio Bandinelli was born on 17 October 1493 in the Tuscan village of Gaiole in Chianti.

October 16, 2016
Painter, writer, and composer Primo Conti was born in Florence on 16 October 1900.

October 16, 2016
Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Oscar Wilde was born 16 October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.

October 12, 2016
John Cabot University Launching Art History Masters Program in Fall 2017 John Cabot University announced earlier this year that it is slated to launch a Master of Arts in Art History program , the first US-accredited MA in the history of art based entirely in Rome, in Fall 2017.