Florence

April 8, 2017
Landmark Exhibition Looking at Work of Plautilla Nelli Extended to 4 June; Crowdfunding Campaign ends 16 April As part of the push to showcase the works of women artists, the Galleria degli Uffizi launched an exhibition 8 March 2017 on the work of Suor Plautilla Nelli, one of the first documented female artists of the Renaissance.

April 6, 2017
Raphael died in Rome on 6 April 1520, likely his thirty-seventh birthday (unless, in fact, he was born on 28 March).

March 7, 2017
Sculptor Gaetano Orsolini was born 7 March 1884 in Montegiorgio, a town equidistant from Ancona and Ascoli Piceno.

February 27, 2017
Sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker Marino Marini was born on 27 February in 1901 in Pistoia.

February 26, 2017
On 26 February 1616, Galileo Galilei was formally banned and banished by the Roman Catholic Church for teaching and defending the opinion that the Earth orbits the Sun.

February 22, 2017
Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci died 22 February 1512 at the age of 57 in Seville Spain.

February 17, 2017
Italian painter and draughtsman Giuliano Bugiardini died on 17 February 1554.

January 22, 2017
The joint feast day of Saint Vincent of Saragossa, executed by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 304, and Saint Anastasius of Persia, a Christian convert killed in 628, is celebrated on 22 January.

January 14, 2017
Artist Francesco di Cristofano, better known as Franciabigio, died on 14 January, 1525, in his hometown of Florence at age 41.

January 13, 2017
Today (13 January) is the traditional Feast of the Baptism of Christ, though it is now typically observed on the first Sunday after Epiphany (in 2016 it was celebrated on January 10 ).