Italian Renaissance

April 20, 2017
Leon Battista Alberti died on 20 April 1472 in Rome.

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).

February 24, 2017
Renaissance Specialist to Run Prado Museum News outlets in Spain are reporting that Miguel Falomir, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art, is on the verge of being appointed as the director of the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.

January 19, 2017
Painter Paris Bordone died on 19 January 1571 in Venice, where he had spent the majority of his career.

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.

October 17, 2016
Sculptor Baccio Bandinelli was born on 17 October 1493 in the Tuscan village of Gaiole in Chianti.

September 2, 2016
Architect Vincenzo Scamozzi was born on 2 September 1548 in Vicenza.

August 1, 2016
Giovanni Santi , father of the artist Raphael , died on 1 August 1494 in Urbino .

July 29, 2016
The Florentine painter Pesellino died on 29 July 1457.

August 4, 2015
Donatello and THE LOST MUSEUM Research, Memories, and Rediscoveries 17 / 18 September 2015 International symposium at the Bode-Museum, Museumsinsel Berlin Outside Florence, the Bode-Museum in Berlin is one of the few places where the art of Donatello (ca.