italian painting

May 17, 2016
The finale of a famed Florentine: Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, died 17 May 1510.

May 3, 2016
Night falls on a Neapolitan master: Baroque painter Francesco Solimena died 3 May 1747 at the age of 89 in the borough of Barra.

April 5, 2016
A big day for builders: 5 April marks the feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer, a former Dominican friar and patron saint of those in the field of construction.

October 29, 2015
Second-generation Macchiaioli painter Niccolò Cannicci was born on this day in 1846.

March 4, 2015
Italian portrait painter Giuseppe Ghislandi, known as Fra Vittore Galgario, was baptized on 4 March 1655 in Bergamo.

October 26, 2014
Through 4 January 2015 see Fra Angelico…Rediscovered Masterpieces at the Domaine de Chantilly .