Florence

April 16, 2016
Filippo Brunelleschi died on 16 April 1446 in Florence.

April 15, 2016
Though he had no children, Leonardo da Vinci had twenty-three half-brothers and half-sisters , most of whom had children.

March 23, 2016
IAS/Kress Lecture The 2016 IAS/Kress Lecture will be held 1 June at Villa I Tatti , The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.

March 11, 2016
Sir John Hawkwood (d. 1394) led Paduan forces against the Veronese at the Battle of Castagnaro, fought on 11 March 1387.

March 10, 2016
30 never-seen-before drawings from the Villa Piatti collection in Florence are now on view in Milan.

February 18, 2016
Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico, died on 18 February 1455 in Rome.

February 17, 2016
The seventh annual IAS/Kress Lecture will be held 1 June 2016 in Florence at Villa I Tatti , The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

February 1, 2016
Ashgate publishes Pietro Porcinai and the Landscape of Modern Italy edited by Marc Treib and Luigi Latini.

January 31, 2016
Cambridge University Press publishes Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise Humanism, History, and Artistic Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance by Amy R. Bloch.

January 19, 2016
Yale University Press publishes Visions of Paradise: Botticini’s Palmieri Altarpiece by Jennifer Sliwka, which coincides with the exhibition on view at the National Gallery, London through 28 March 2016 .