Florence

January 3, 2016
Allison Levy was the recipient of a 2015 IAS Research & Publication Grant , which she used to travel to Florence as part of her work on her current book project, Misfits, Monstrosities, and Madness at the Villa Ambrogiana .

January 3, 2016
Luca Giordano died 3 January 1705 in his hometown of Naples.

January 2, 2016
Architect Giovanni Michelucci was born on 2 January 1891 in Pistoia.

December 31, 2015
The “ Master of Swish ,” Giovanni Boldini, was born on the last day of the year, 1842, in Ferrara, Italy.

December 29, 2015
Sculptor Girolamo Masini was born 29 December 1840 in Florence.

December 28, 2015
Ashgate publishes Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy by IAS Member Diana Bullen Presciutti.

December 23, 2015
IAS/Kress Lecture Series 4

December 10, 2015
Today is the anniversary of the death of Paolo Uccello (née Paolo di Dono), the early Renaissance Florentine painter, who died on December 10, 1475.

December 9, 2015
Menachem Wecker profiles Eike Schmidt, the new director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, in The Art Newspaper .

November 26, 2015
The 19th century Florentine sculptress Amalia Dupré was born on this day – November 26 – in 1842.