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September 28, 2015
A New Look at Segantini’s “The Evil Mothers” Series By Anat Moberman Between the years 1891-6, Giovanni Segantini , who died on 28 September 1899, painted a large series of paintings dealing with the subject of mothers rejecting what was then seen as their natural destiny – motherhood – either by refusing to conceive or through terminating their pregnancies.

November 10, 2014
Bernardo Barbatelli (Bernardino Poccetti) was Buried on November 10 in 1612.

September 17, 2014
Villa I Tatti On this day in 1440 the Florentine humanist Francesco Berlinghieri was born.

June 11, 2014
The fifth annual IAS/Kress lecture in Italy , jointly sponsored by the Italian Art Society with the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation , was held on 27 May 2014 at 5 pm in the Gipsoteca di Arte Antica of the Università di Pisa .

May 25, 2014
In anticipation of the 2014 IAS/Kress Lecture by Dr. Jean Cadogan , “ Maravigliose istorie : The Mural Decoration of the Camposanto in Pisa,” I share some photos of Pisa.

May 7, 2014
La Medaglia di Giovanni Paleologo by Pisanello

May 6, 2014
The Sack of Rome began on this day in 1527, during the pontificate of the second Medici pope, Clement VII (r. 1523-34) .