christian art

September 20, 2014
On 20 September 1374, painter Antonio Veneziano registered with the Arte dei Medici e Speziali in Florence .

August 14, 2014
Jacopo da Montagnana was dead by this day in 1499.

August 8, 2014
On This Day in 1452 (8 December) Florentine Painter Fra Filippo Lippi Fails to Keep a Commitment.

July 8, 2014
Artemesia Gentileschi was born on this day in 1593 in Rome.

July 6, 2014
Coinciding with the 450th anniversary of Michelangelo’s death , an exhibition at the Musei Capitolini in Rome has caused a stir with its inclusion of two crucifixes that organizers have tentatively attributed to Michelangelo.

July 2, 2014
Today is the Feast of the Visitation , which is recounted in Luke 1:39-57 .

June 3, 2014
From now through 14 September 2014, visitors to The Cleveland Museum of Art can watch conservators clean Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Andrew , one of the museum’s most prized paintings.

May 4, 2014
Polyptych with the Crucifixion and Saints Nicholas, Bartholomew, Florentius, and Luke , about 1315–20.

April 12, 2014
thegetty : “Spend five minutes with the Italian choir book featured in the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Byzantine Illumination at the Cultural Crossroads .

April 12, 2014
The exhibition “Caravaggio and Connoisseurship” invites visitors to assess attributions to the famous Baroque painter.