history

May 8, 2016
Famed Venetian genre painter Pietro Longhi died in that city on 8 May 1785.

May 5, 2016
Italian realist painter Teofilo Patini was born on this day – May 5 – in Castel di Sangro , Abruzzo , in 1840.

May 4, 2016
Walters Art Museum Art of the Day: Portrait of Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and her Daughter Deidamia

April 28, 2016
The first catalogue raisonné of the important Op artist Paolo Scheggi (Florence 1940-Rome 1971) will be presented on Tuesday, May 10, at 6:30pm, at the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti in Milan.

April 27, 2016
Art collector and politician Giuseppe Barracco was born on 28 April 1829 in Calabria.

April 24, 2016
Flemish-born artist Giusto Suttermans (aka Justus Sustermans) died on 24 April 1681 in Florence.

April 23, 2016
The Gallery of Maps , commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in the late sixteenth century for the Vatican Palace, once again shows off the topography of Italy in all its brilliant color.

April 23, 2016
Leonardo da Vinci drew up his last will and testament on 23 April 1519.

April 21, 2016
Happy Birthday to the early-Baroque painter, etcher, and print-maker Ludovico Carracci !

April 20, 2016
The Italian Art Society will host two linked sessions at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Friday, 13 May 2016.