high renaissance

July 2, 2016
Architect and sculptor Jacopo Sansovino was baptized on 2 July 1486 in Florence.

December 25, 2015
Charlemagne Crowned Imperator Romanorum by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800.

October 2, 2015
The exhibition “ Raffaello, Parmigianino, Barocci: Dialectic of the Gaze and Metaphors of Vision ” (2 October 2015–10 January 2016) opened today at the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

September 25, 2015
Pope Clement VII, a key player in the historical and artistic events of the High Renaissance, died on 25 September 1534 in Rome.

February 24, 2015
Mattia Preti was born on 24 February 1613 in Taverna, Calabria.

October 31, 2013
Baccio della Porta, known as Fra Bartolommeo, died on this day in 1517 in Florence.