florentine art

December 22, 2019
On This Day (22 December) in 1490 the Capella Maggiore of Santa Maria Novella was Opened.

December 21, 2018
On This Day in History (21 December 1401) Masaccio was Born.

August 20, 2018
The “Unsuitable Angels” of Benozzo Gozzoli

July 6, 2018
A Florentine Wedding

September 22, 2017
Alessandro Allori died 22 September in 1607 in Florence.

July 29, 2017
Florentine painter Francesco di Stefano, known as Pesellino, died on 29 July 1457.

July 26, 2017
Today, 26 July, is the Feast Day of St Anne and this altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with St Anne and the Saints Sebastian, Peter, Benedict and Philip by Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1556) commemorates the successful revolt against a tyrant ruler that occurred on St Anne’s Day in 1343.

December 21, 2013
Happy Birthday Masaccio !