Baroque

August 15, 2015
Agostino Carracci, older brother of Annibale and cousin of Lodovico, was born on 15 August 1557 in Bologna.

August 2, 2015
Baroque architect Francesco Borromini died on 2 August 1667, just shy of his sixty-eighth birthday.

July 22, 2015
The sculptor Filippo Parodi – said to be Genoa’s first and greatest native Baroque sculptor – died on this day in 1702.

July 21, 2015
The late-Baroque painter Cristoforo Munari was born on this day in 1667.

June 22, 2015
Francesco Celebrano, royal painter to the court of King Ferdinand IV of Naples, died on this day, June 22, in 1814.

June 12, 2015
Late Baroque sculptor Angelo de Rossi died 12 June 1715.

April 13, 2015
Genoese artist Bartolomeo Biscaino was baptized on 14 April 1629.

March 27, 2015
Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo died on 27 March 1770 in Madrid at age 74.

March 22, 2015
Italian Baroque painter Agostino Carracci, older brother of Annibale and cousin of Lodovico , died on 22 March 1602 in Parma.

March 20, 2015
Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni after his birthplace of San Giovanni Valdarno, was born there on 20 March 1592.