art in Rome

November 8, 2018
Melozzo degli Ambrogi da Forlì Died on 8 November 1494.

May 10, 2018
Baroque artist Antonio Gherardi died 10 May 1702.

November 3, 2017
Born On This day (3 November) in 1560: The Baroque Painter Annibale Carracci.

October 26, 2017
Architect, painter, landscaper, and antiquarian Pirro Ligorio died on 26 October 1583.

September 29, 2017
Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was likely born on 29 September 1571, for scholars agree that he was born in the fall of this year, and  29 September is the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel , Caravaggio’s namesake.

August 24, 2017
Lavinia Fontana was baptized on 24 August 1552 in Bologna.

August 9, 2017
On 9 August 1482, Francesco della Rovere (1414-1484) was elected as Pope Sixtus IV .

April 27, 2017
On 27 April 1509 pope Julius II excommunicated the city-state of Venice.

December 8, 2016
The demise of a draughtsman: 8 December 1799 marked the death of sculptor, painter, and engraver Giuseppe Cades in Rome.

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