mantua

June 23, 2019
Santa Maria del Gradaro in Mantua: from Medieval church to site of a Fascist concentration camp

November 1, 2018
Sixteenth-Century Artist and Architect Giulio Romano Died on 1 November 1546 in Mantua.

July 1, 2018
From 1849 to 1969, the first Sunday in July was dedicated to the “Feast of the most Precious Blood.” The basilica of Sant’Andrea in Mantua houses one of the most well-known relics of the Precious Blood of Christ.

May 31, 2018
Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto died on 31 May 1594 in his native city.

July 31, 2017
Alessandro Algardi was born in Bologna on 31 July 1598.

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

November 1, 2015
Giulio Romano Died on All Saints’ Day (1 November) in 1546 in Mantua.

August 19, 2015
After publishing its short list of 200 candidates on 8 July , the Italian ministry of culture has announced the appointments of twenty new museum directors for Italy’s most acclaimed museums in Caserta, Florence, Genoa, Mantua, Milan, Modena, Naples, Paestum, Perugia, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Taranto, Turin, Urbino, and Venice.

July 8, 2015
Ermanno Rivetti reports in the Art Newspaper on plans to hire new directors for 20 of Italy’s major art museums.

February 14, 2014
Happy Birthday Leon Battista Alberti!