italian art

June 30, 2018
Florentine sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio may have died on 30 June 1488 in Venice, where he was at work on his equestrian portrait of mercenary soldier Bartolommeo Colleoni.

June 24, 2018
The 24th day of June is an important one in Roman imperial history.

June 21, 2018
Sebastiano del Piombo died on 21 June 1547 in Rome.

June 17, 2018
The Pollaiuolo Brothers and the Capitoline Wolf.

June 13, 2018
Today is the Feast Day of St. Anthony of Padua , who died on 13 June 1231.

June 10, 2018
Dogs in Roman Life and Art Though she was educated at Cambridge and because a full professor at Oxford University, archaeologist and art historian Joceyln Toynbee published under the initials J.M.C.

June 1, 2018
Florentine painter Biagio d’Antonio Tucci died 1 June 1516 in his hometown.

May 31, 2018
Painter Alessandro Allori was born on 31 May 1535 in Florence.

May 29, 2018
On 29 May 1606, the great Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio killed Ranuccio Tommasoni in Rome.

May 27, 2018
Barbarian Burial Sheds Light on Legion’s Legends Roman writers and artists often made the “wild and savage” “barbarians” of Germania the subject of their historical reconstructions and commemorative stonework.