art theory

September 2, 2018
Vicentine architect Vincenzo Scamozzi was born on 2 September 1548 in Vicenza.

January 27, 2018
Milanese painter and art theorist Gian Paolo Lomazzo died on 27 January 1592.

August 7, 2017
Architect Vincenzo Scamozzi died on 7 August 1616 in Venice, where he spent the latter part of his career after getting started in his hometown of Vicenza.

August 22, 2013
On this day in 1582, Florentine sculptor Bartolomeo Ammanati published a letter addressed to the Accademia di San Luca (artists’ guild) denouncing the public display of nude sculpture, including his own Neptune Fountain in the Piazza della Signoria of Florence (1560-75).