Baroque

June 18, 2017
Sculptor and architectural designer Bartolomeo Ammanati was born 18 June 1511 in Settignano, a village near Florence.

June 10, 2017
Alessandro Algardi died on 10 June 1654 in Rome.

May 21, 2017
The Guerniero Herkules Celebrates 300th Birthday In the north Hessen city of Kassel , the baroque Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe celebrates its fourth anniversary as Germany’s newest UNESCO World Heritage site this summer, and it is also the 300 th anniversary of the bizarre but beloved Herkules statue.

May 12, 2017
Architect Luigi Vanvitelli was born on 12 May 1700 in Naples.

May 8, 2017
Baroque painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as il Baciccio, was born on 8 May 1639 in Genoa.

April 1, 2017
Architect and painter Ferdinando Sanfelice died in Naples on 1 April 1748.

March 22, 2017
Architect Emanuele Rodriguez dos Santos died 22 March 1764 in Rome.

January 28, 2017
Giulio Rospigliosi, who eventually became Pope Clement IX (r. 1667-9), was born on 28 January 1600 in Pistoia.

December 24, 2016
Sculptor Antonio Giorgetti died 24 December 1669 in Rome.

December 20, 2016
Venetian Architect Giorgio Massari Died 20 December 1766.