Baroque

December 20, 2017
Recently Rediscovered Gentileschi Portrait Goes for New Record Price at Auction The Art Newspaper has reported this morning that a recently rediscovered self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi in the guise of Saint Catherine has sold at a Druout auction in Paris for $2.85 million (€2.36 million), which sets a new record price for a work by the revolutionary Baroque-era painter.

December 7, 2017
Gianlorenzo Bernini was born 7 December 1598 in Naples.

November 28, 2017
Gianlorenzo Bernini Died on 28 November 1680.

November 27, 2017
Painter and Architect, Pietro Berretini was Baptized on 27 November 1597.

November 13, 2017
Lodovico Carracci Died on 13 November 1619 in Bologna.

November 4, 2017
Guido Reni was Born in Bologna on 4 November 1575.

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

October 1, 2017
In one of the most famous clashes of the ancient world, Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BCE.

September 21, 2017
September 21 is the feast day of gospel author St. Matthew , one of the twelve apostles.

September 9, 2017
The exhibition “The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and Seventeenth Century Florence” is currently on display at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.