italian painting

October 19, 2017
Futurist Umberto Boccioni was born on 19 October 1882 in Reggio Calabria.

September 29, 2017
“Dentro Caravaggio” Palazzo Reale, Milan, 29 September-28 January 2018

“Dentro Caravaggio” Palazzo Reale, Milan, 29 September-28 January 2018

June 15, 2017
Lisa Gherardini (aka Mona Lisa), the wife of Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo, was born on 15 June 1479 in Florence.

April 6, 2017
Raphael died in Rome on 6 April 1520, likely his thirty-seventh birthday (unless, in fact, he was born on 28 March).

March 4, 2017
The dawn of a draughtsman: sculptor, painter, and engraver Giuseppe Cades was born on 4 March 1750 in Rome.

December 25, 2016
As foretold in Isaiah’s prophesy about the Messiah (Isaiah 1:3) and recounted in the Gospels, Christ’s life on earth began in a stable in Bethlehem.

December 8, 2016
The demise of a draughtsman: 8 December 1799 marked the death of sculptor, painter, and engraver Giuseppe Cades in Rome.

August 31, 2016
Painter and architect Nicola Filotesio, also known as Cola dell’Amatrice, died 31 August 1547 (or 1559) in Ascoli Piceno.

August 18, 2016
Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo died in Genoa on 18 August 1638.

July 6, 2016
Rediscovered Sebastiano del Piombo Painting Joins Art Institute of Chicago Collection The Art Institute of Chicago announced earlier this week that 16th-century Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo’s Christ Carrying the Cross (1515-1517) has joined the museum’s collection.