painting

September 11, 2016
Modest Modernism and Social Photography at Museo Italo Americano An exhibit opened this weekend at San Francisco’s Museo Italo Americano is devoted to a shift in the work of still life photographer William Castellana from studies of plants and landscapes toward the social history of his own Williamsburg neighborhood.

September 9, 2016
Baroque painter Felice Torelli was born on 9 September 1667 to a family of Veronese artists, including the noted violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709).

September 2, 2016
Neoclassical artist Vincenzo Camuccini died on 2 September 1844 in Rome.

August 28, 2016
The 28th of August is the Feast Day of St. augustine of Hippo (354-430), from whom several Roman Catholic and Anglican orders take their name.

August 21, 2016
Animal-Themed Art in Pakistan The first Pakistan-based solo show of an Italian contemporary artist calls attention to the plight of the country’s fragile population of fauna, which includes the endangered snow leopard and the threatened markhor, a large mountain goat.

August 14, 2016
Fragments of brightly-painted Roman frescoes have been discovered in Zippori National Park in Israel by a team from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

August 1, 2016
Giovanni Santi , father of the artist Raphael , died on 1 August 1494 in Urbino .

July 29, 2016
The Florentine painter Pesellino died on 29 July 1457.

July 29, 2016
The Futurist poet and painter Francesco Cangiullo died on this day, 29 July 1977.

July 17, 2016
Painter and sculptor Aligi Sassu was born in Milan on 17 July 1912.