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May 17, 2016
The finale of a famed Florentine: Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, died 17 May 1510.

April 24, 2016
Flemish-born artist Giusto Suttermans (aka Justus Sustermans) died on 24 April 1681 in Florence.

November 8, 2015
Felicia M. Else, Associate Professor of Art History at Gettysburg College , shares her experience as a 2013 IAS Research & Publication Grant winner.

October 18, 2015
Palazzo Pitti, Italy

June 29, 2015
On 29 July 1539 , the young duke of Florence Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574) married the seventeen-year-old Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562).

February 13, 2015
Benvenuto Cellini died on 13 February 1571 at age 70.

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

October 15, 2014
philamuseum : Love Italy?

October 5, 2014
Francesco d’Ubertino Verdi, known as Bachiacca, died 5 October 1557 in Florence.

July 30, 2013
Happy Birthday Giorgio Vasari !