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 15, 2016
The feast of Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) is celebrated today on 15 October.

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).

April 8, 2016
Baroque architect Antonio Petrini died on 8 April 1701 in Würzburg, Germany.

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

September 11, 2015
Italian naturalist and antiquarian Ulisse Aldrovandi was born in Bologna on 11 September 1522.

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