Florence

October 18, 2016
Painter Luca Giordano was born on 18 October 1634 in Naples.

October 17, 2016
Sculptor Baccio Bandinelli was born on 17 October 1493 in the Tuscan village of Gaiole in Chianti.

October 16, 2016
Painter, writer, and composer Primo Conti was born in Florence on 16 October 1900.

October 15, 2016
London National Gallery in Pursuit of Pontormo News out of England earlier this week suggests that London’s National Gallery is very close to raising the funds needed to acquire Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (1530) .

October 4, 2016
Two Post-Doctoral Fellowship Opportunities at the Villa i Tatti FIRST POSITION TITLE: Post-Doctoral Fellow for Publications and Conferences LOCATION: Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy Summary: Villa I Tatti offers a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in any of the fields of Italian Renaissance art, history, literature, philosophy, history of science, and/or music.

August 31, 2016
Call for Papers: The Network of Cassinese Arts in MediterraneanRenaissance Italy Conferenceorganized by Alessandro Nova and Giancarla Periti Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz,Florence, 16-18 March, 2017 From thelate fifteenth to the mid sixteenth century, an impressive corpus ofarchitecture, sculpture, and painting was created to embellish monastic sitesaffiliated with the Benedictine Cassinese Congregation of Italy.

Call for Papers: The Network of Cassinese Arts in MediterraneanRenaissance Italy Conferenceorganized by Alessandro Nova and Giancarla Periti Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz,Florence, 16-18 March, 2017 From thelate fifteenth to the mid sixteenth century, an impressive corpus ofarchitecture, sculpture, and painting was created to embellish monastic sitesaffiliated with the Benedictine Cassinese Congregation of Italy.