botticelli

June 4, 2023
Today is Trinity Sunday, celebrated in the Western Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost as a day to focus on the doctrine that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at once.

May 25, 2020
Fit for Ducal Patronage: A Quartet of Quattrocento Florentine Painters

July 6, 2018
The Quattrocento Decoration in the Sistine Chapel

December 31, 2016
Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was born on 1 January 1449 in Florence.

October 10, 2016
The Magi and their Florentine connections

May 17, 2016
The finale of a famed Florentine: Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, died 17 May 1510.

March 5, 2016
Up and downs of a painter: from the Quattrocento to the present day, art historians have evaluated the works of Florentine Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) in dramatically differing ways.

January 27, 2016
Dante Alighieri (b. Florence 22 May-13 June 1265, d. Ravenna 14 September 1321) was first banished from Florence on this day, 27 January in 1302.

January 16, 2016
On 16 January 1498, Francesco di Giovanni, known as Botticini, died in Florence.

July 21, 2015
On 21 July 1414, Francesco della Rovere was born near Savona.