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January 2, 2018
Piero di Cosimo was born on 2 January 1462 in Florence.

October 28, 2017
On View: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael around 1500

February 18, 2017
Pontormo Painting Problems Persist An impressive campaign by London’s National Gallery to raise funds to keep a prominent Pontormo portrait in England seems for naught as it appears the American purchaser of the painting will not accept their matched payment.

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) .

October 12, 2016
Beyond Caravaggio Exhibition Opens Today at London’s National Gallery The exhibition “ Beyond Caravaggio ” opens 12 October at the National Gallery in London.

January 19, 2016
Yale University Press publishes Visions of Paradise: Botticini’s Palmieri Altarpiece by Jennifer Sliwka, which coincides with the exhibition on view at the National Gallery, London through 28 March 2016 .

December 14, 2014
Mary sits on an elaborately decorated throne, her lap creating a throne for her son Jesus.

March 19, 2014
Paolo Veronese’s first monographic show in the United Kingdom opens today in London @NationalGallery.

July 31, 2013
The August issue of The Burlington Magazine will be devoted to Italian art with articles on Pietro Perugino’s contract for the Collegio del Cambio frescos; the late work of Pietro da Cortona and his workshop; the decorations for the Collegio Borromeo in Pavia; more on Mattia Preti’s S. Vigilio altarpiece in Siena; and a fake Francia in the National Gallery, London.

July 3, 2013
Duccio, The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew , 1308/11, Tempera on panel, 43.5 x 46 cm (17 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.