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June 25, 2017
Favorite Artwork Fact File Umberto Boccioni.

June 25, 2017
Roberto Cuoghi at the Venice Biennale Roberto Cuoghi’s Imitazione di Cristo (2017) is certainly one of the darker features at a Biennale that has garnered much criticism for being too “hippy,” cheerful, and politically tone-deaf.

June 18, 2017
Maria Lai at documenta 14 With Skulptur Projekte Münster , documenta 14 , and the Venice Biennale now open and going through the fall, the contemporary art world enjoys a rare trifecta of the major continental exhibitions.

June 18, 2017
Sculptor and architectural designer Bartolomeo Ammanati was born 18 June 1511 in Settignano, a village near Florence.

June 11, 2017
Painter Erma Bossi was born 11 June 1882 in Pola, a small village near Trieste.

June 11, 2017
Lara Favaretto at Skulptur Projekte Münster With the openings this weekend of both Skulptur Projekte Münster and documenta 14 , the contemporary art world enjoys, along with the ongoing Venice Biennale , a rare trifecta of the major continental exhibitions.

June 4, 2017
Claudia de’ Medici was born 4 June 1604 in Florence.

May 28, 2017
On 28 May, 585 BCE, a solar eclipse occurred.

May 21, 2017
The Guerniero Herkules Celebrates 300th Birthday In the north Hessen city of Kassel , the baroque Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe celebrates its fourth anniversary as Germany’s newest UNESCO World Heritage site this summer, and it is also the 300 th anniversary of the bizarre but beloved Herkules statue.

May 14, 2017
Free Italian art Books Available to Download from the Guggenheim Since 2012, the Guggenheim Museums and Foundation has been digitizing its massive collection of monographs, catalogs, and other art books.