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December 2, 2020
Leading Designer Achille Castiglioni Died in Milan on 2 December 2002.

November 4, 2018
The Arno Floods the City of Florence on November 4 1966.

October 28, 2018
Pietro Annigoni died on October 28, 1988 in Florence.

May 23, 2018
On May 23 rd , Florentines celebrate ‘La Fiorita’, a commemoration of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola who was burned on this day in 1498 in Piazza della Signoria.

February 26, 2018
Leading designer Achille Castiglioni was Born on 26 February 1918.

January 29, 2018
Italian painter and draughtsman Giuliano Bugiardini was born in Florence on 29 January 1475.

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

October 23, 2017
On 23 October 1461, Florentine painter Benozzo Gozzoli was contracted to paint an altarpiece for the new oratory of the Compagnia di Santa Maria della Purificazione e di San Zanobi, a youth confraternity sponsored by Cosimo de’Medici at San Marco in Florence.

September 18, 2017
The last documents referring to fourteenth-century painter Pietro Lorenzetti are dated between 18 September 1344 and 19 February 1345.

September 9, 2017
The exhibition “The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and Seventeenth Century Florence” is currently on display at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.