neoclassicism

July 4, 2015
Italian painter Giambettino Cignaroli was born on 4 July 1706 in Verona, where he spent his career and became the city’s leading painter in the Rococo era.

July 4, 2015
Italian neoclassical sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi was born on 4 July 1751 in Rome.

June 22, 2015
Francesco Celebrano, royal painter to the court of King Ferdinand IV of Naples, died on this day, June 22, in 1814.

March 3, 2015
Italian architect, engineer, and author Tommaso Temanza was born on 3 March 1705 in Venice.

August 3, 2014
Archaeologists discovered the Seated Mercury on this day in 1758 in the peristyle of the Villa of Papyri at Herculaneum .

July 16, 2014
On this day in 1854, Italian architect Nicola Bettoli died in Parma.

June 3, 2014
Italian architect Emilio De Fabris died in Florence on 3 June 1883.

April 2, 2014
thegetty : Simple forms and a restrained composition celebrate the resolve, innocence and moral authority of the Vestal Virgins.

November 30, 2013
Happy birthday Andrea Palladio!

October 13, 2013
Antonio Canova died on this day in 1822 in Venice at age 65.