arthistory

March 14, 2018
Giuseppe Maria Crespi was born 14 March 1665 in Bologna.

February 7, 2018
Italian sculptor Giosuè Argenti was born 7 February 1819 Viggiù near Como.

January 17, 2018
Painter Carlo Dolci died on 17 January 1687 in his native Florence.

December 6, 2017
Zanobi Strozzi died in Florence on 6 December 1468, the Feast of St. Nicholas.

August 14, 2017
Architect Luigi Cagnola died 14 August 1833 in Como.

July 15, 2017
On July 15, 1609, Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) died in Rome.

April 24, 2016
Flemish-born artist Giusto Suttermans (aka Justus Sustermans) died on 24 April 1681 in Florence.

April 17, 2016
The poet Laura Battiferri married the sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati on 17 April 1550 in Loreto.

January 17, 2016
17 January is the feast day of St. Anthony Abbot, who is revered as the founder of Christian monasticism in the east.

December 12, 2015
The culmination of a Caravaggisto: Bartolomeo Manfredi died 12 December 1622 in Rome.