Italian Renaissance

July 5, 2015
Italian painter Paris Bordone was baptized on 5 July 1500 in Treviso.

June 3, 2015
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May 26, 2015
Jacopo da Pontormo was born in Pontormo, near Empoli, on 26 May 1494.

February 20, 2015
Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral opens 20 February 2015 at the Museum of Biblical Art , New York.

January 23, 2015
Art patron and cloth merchant Taddeo Taddei was born on 23 January 1470 in Florence.

January 22, 2015
The Italian banker and art patron Bindo Altoviti died on 22 January 1557 in his native Rome.

January 11, 2015
Domenico Ghirlandaio died on 11 January 1494 in Florence.

December 31, 2014
Jacopo da Pontormo died on New Year’s Eve in 1556 in Florence, where he had been the leading painter of his day.

November 17, 2014
Zanobi Strozzi was born in Florence on 17 November 1412.

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