history

July 17, 2016
Painter and sculptor Aligi Sassu was born in Milan on 17 July 1912.

July 8, 2016
Artemisia Gentileschi was born 8 July 1593 in Rome.

July 3, 2016
Architect and urban planner-theorist Carlo Aymonino died on 3 July 2010.

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

June 24, 2016
Today, June 24th, is the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist.

June 17, 2016
Penn State University Press publishes Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art by IAS member Frances Gage.

June 10, 2016
Check out the Getty’s video: “Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer Process,” which explains and demonstrates the design transfer technique used by numerous Italian artists in the 15th and 16th centuries.

June 3, 2016
Italian painter Bartolomeo Passarotti died on 3 June 1592 in Bologna.

May 27, 2016
On 27 May 1626, Giusto Suttermans delivered his painting The Senators of Florence Swearing Allegiance to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

May 15, 2016
Painter Sebastiano Ricci died on 15 May 1734 in Venice.