Florence

October 29, 2015
Second-generation Macchiaioli painter Niccolò Cannicci was born on this day in 1846.

October 18, 2015
Palazzo Pitti, Italy

October 18, 2015
October 18 is the Feast day of St. Luke , gospel writer and patron saint of artists, owing to the Christian tradition that he painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.

October 12, 2015
On 12 September 1439, the young Piero della Francesca (d. 1492) was recorded as assistant to painter Domenico Veneziano (d. 1461), then at work on frescoes in the choir of Sant’Egidio at the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.

October 7, 2015
Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action opens 7 October 2015 at The Frick Collection in New York.

September 1, 2015
In a fantastic instance of artistic conversation between the contemporary and the cinquecento, announced today was the impending installation of Jeff Koons’ monumental sculptural piece, Pluto and Proserpina (2010-2013) in the heart of Florence, adjacent to the replica of Michelangelo’s David (1501-1504) in front of the Palazzo Vecchio .

August 29, 2015
Florentine artist Alesso Baldovinetti died on 29 August 1499.

August 19, 2015
After publishing its short list of 200 candidates on 8 July , the Italian ministry of culture has announced the appointments of twenty new museum directors for Italy’s most acclaimed museums in Caserta, Florence, Genoa, Mantua, Milan, Modena, Naples, Paestum, Perugia, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Taranto, Turin, Urbino, and Venice.

August 5, 2015
Printmaker and painter Antonio Tempesta died 5 August 1630.

August 4, 2015
Donatello and THE LOST MUSEUM Research, Memories, and Rediscoveries 17 / 18 September 2015 International symposium at the Bode-Museum, Museumsinsel Berlin Outside Florence, the Bode-Museum in Berlin is one of the few places where the art of Donatello (ca.