mannerism

October 20, 2016
Perino del Vaga died on 20 October 1547 in Rome at the age of 46.

October 17, 2016
Italian painter Cristofano Allori was born on 17 October 1577 in Florence.

October 15, 2016
London National Gallery in Pursuit of Pontormo News out of England earlier this week suggests that London’s National Gallery is very close to raising the funds needed to acquire Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (1530) .

September 12, 2016
Mannerist painter Benedetto Pagni died on 12 September 1578 in Mantua.

August 13, 2016
Sculptor Giovanni da Bologna (or Giambologna ), who was born in Douai, Flanders, as Jean Boulogne, died on this day, 13 August 1608 in Florence.

August 11, 2016
Lavinia Fontana died on 11 August 1614 in Rome.

July 11, 2016
Italian painter and architect Girolamo Genga died on 11 July 1551 in Urbino.

April 26, 2016
The arrival of an artist and an art historian: Gian (or Giovan) Paolo Lomazzo was born 26 April 1538 in Milan.

April 4, 2016
Mannerist painter and sculptor Daniele Ricciarelli da Volterra died on 4 April 1566 in Rome.

February 15, 2016
A new artistic lighting for Giulio Romano’s Pescherie (fish market) has launched the series of events to be held through the year in the city of Mantua, Italy’s 2016 Capital of Culture.