Baroque

June 22, 2016
Now Open: Caravaggio and the Painters of the North at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza For those tantalized by tenebrism: a fantastic new exhibition, entitled “ Caravaggio and the Painters of the North ,” just opened yesterday (21 June) at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain.

April 21, 2016
Happy Birthday to the early-Baroque painter, etcher, and print-maker Ludovico Carracci !

April 2, 2016
Italian architect Ferdinando Sanfelice died on 2 April 1748 in his hometown of Naples, where he rose to become one of the city’s leading architects.

March 31, 2016
University of Toronto Press publishes Baroque Visual Rhetoric by IAS member Vernon Hyde Minor.

February 12, 2016
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired Danaë by Orazio Gentileschi, painted around 1621 in Rome.

February 9, 2016
Building the Baroque: Architect Francesco Maria Richini was born on 9 February 1584 in Milan.

February 9, 2016
Yale University Press publishes Rome 1600: The City and the Visual Arts under Clement VIII by Clare Robertson From the publisher: In 1600 Rome was the center of the artistic world.

February 4, 2016
Genoese late- Baroque painter Alessandro Magnasco was born on this day, February 4, 1667.

February 2, 2016
Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (the “squinter”), is believed to have been born on 2 February 1591 in Cento.

January 31, 2016
Sicilian architect Filippo Juvarra died on 31 January 1736 in Madrid.