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July 10, 2016
Decorative painter Alessandro Alberti died in Rome on 10 July 1596.

July 8, 2016
Artemisia Gentileschi was born 8 July 1593 in Rome.

June 24, 2016
Today, June 24th, is the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist.

June 10, 2016
Check out the Getty’s video: “Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer Process,” which explains and demonstrates the design transfer technique used by numerous Italian artists in the 15th and 16th centuries.

June 3, 2016
Italian painter Bartolomeo Passarotti died on 3 June 1592 in Bologna.

June 2, 2016
Founder of the kinetic art movement “ Gruppo ENNE ”, Alberto Biasi was born on this day, June 2, 1937 in Padua.

May 27, 2016
On 27 May 1626, Giusto Suttermans delivered his painting The Senators of Florence Swearing Allegiance to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

May 12, 2016
Happy Birthday to Italian Modernist artist Mario Sironi , who was born on this day, May 12 1885 in Sassari , Sardinia.

May 8, 2016
Famed Venetian genre painter Pietro Longhi died in that city on 8 May 1785.

May 5, 2016
Italian realist painter Teofilo Patini was born on this day – May 5 – in Castel di Sangro , Abruzzo , in 1840.