history

April 17, 2016
The poet Laura Battiferri married the sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati on 17 April 1550 in Loreto.

April 16, 2016
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, known as Giambattista, was baptized on 16 April 1696 in the church of San Pietro di Castello, then the cathedral of Venice.

April 16, 2016
Filippo Brunelleschi died on 16 April 1446 in Florence.

April 15, 2016
Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452, in Anchiano, near Vinci.

April 15, 2016
Pastellist and painter Rosalba Carriera died on 15 April 1757 in Venice.

April 8, 2016
Roman Emperor Caracalla was assassinated on 8 April 217, four days after his twenty-ninth birthday.

April 2, 2016
Italian architect Ferdinando Sanfelice died on 2 April 1748 in his hometown of Naples, where he rose to become one of the city’s leading architects.

March 31, 2016
University of Toronto Press publishes Baroque Visual Rhetoric by IAS member Vernon Hyde Minor.

March 28, 2016
Earlier this year Penn State University Press published Raphael’s Ostrich by Una Roman D’Elia, associate professor of art history at Queen’s University.

March 17, 2016
Walters Art Museum: Marcus Aurelius in Baltimore