Florence

June 7, 2016
Indiana University Developing New Way to View Uffizi Sculptures The Indiana University Virtual World Heritage Laboratory has partnered with Florence’s Galleria degli Uffizi to render 3-D digital models of more than 1,200 sculptures currently held in the museum’s vast collection.

May 27, 2016
On 27 May 1626, Giusto Suttermans delivered his painting The Senators of Florence Swearing Allegiance to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

May 24, 2016
Coming Soon: IAS/Kress Lecture Next Week The 2016 IAS/Kress Lecture will be held 1 June at Villa I Tatti , The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.

May 17, 2016
The finale of a famed Florentine: Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, died 17 May 1510.

May 15, 2016
Painter Sebastiano Ricci died on 15 May 1734 in Venice.

May 5, 2016
A team of eminent specialists from a variety of academic disciplines has coalesced around a goal of creating new insight into the life and genius of Leonardo da Vinci by means of authoritative new research and modern detective technologies, including DNA science.

May 5, 2016
On 5 May 2016 at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Leo S. Olschki publishers presented their two-volume work Codice Rustici: un viaggio attraverso la Storia, l’Arte, e la Chiesa della Firenze del XV secolo (The Rustici Codex: a trip across history, art and the church of Florence in the 15th century) , edited by Elena Gurrieri with a critical edition of the manuscript by Kathleen Olive and Nerida Newbigin and a collection of interpretive essays by various scholars.

April 24, 2016
Flemish-born artist Giusto Suttermans (aka Justus Sustermans) died on 24 April 1681 in Florence.

April 23, 2016
Leonardo da Vinci drew up his last will and testament on 23 April 1519.

April 17, 2016
The poet Laura Battiferri married the sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati on 17 April 1550 in Loreto.