counter reformation

June 28, 2018
Gioacchino Asserto, an early baroque painter from Genoa, died on 28 June 1649.

November 4, 2017
On View: The Cinquecento in Florence: From Michelangelo and Pontormo to Giambologna (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence)

December 15, 2016
Carlo Maratti (also known as Maratta) died on 15 December in 1713 in Rome.

October 2, 2016
Saint Charles Borromeo was born 2 October 1538 in Milan, the city where he became Archbishop in 1564 and died in 1584.

September 9, 2016
Baroque painter Felice Torelli was born on 9 September 1667 to a family of Veronese artists, including the noted violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709).

October 1, 2015
Architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola was born on 1 October 1507.

October 1, 2013
Architect Jacopo Vignola was born on this day in 1507.

August 31, 2013
Jesuit artist Andrea Pozzo died on this day in 1709 in Vienna, where he was working for members of the Austrian court .

August 22, 2013
On this day in 1582, Florentine sculptor Bartolomeo Ammanati published a letter addressed to the Accademia di San Luca (artists’ guild) denouncing the public display of nude sculpture, including his own Neptune Fountain in the Piazza della Signoria of Florence (1560-75).