devotional art

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

January 22, 2014
Through March 30, 2014, four small devotional paintings by Piero della Francesca, never exhibited together before now, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

November 21, 2013
The church of Santa Maria della Salute was constructed as a votive offering to the Virgin Mary to end the plague of 1630 that killed about a third of the Venetian population.

August 4, 2013
Andrea di Marco della Robbia died on this day in 1525.

July 29, 2013
Florentine painter Pesellino died on this day in 1457.