patronage
October 12, 2020
Today is Columbus Day, a national holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492.
July 30, 2018
Giambologna and the Tuscan Villa of Il Riposo
November 24, 2017
Alfonso II d’Este was Born on 24 November 1533.
January 28, 2017
Giulio Rospigliosi, who eventually became Pope Clement IX (r. 1667-9), was born on 28 January 1600 in Pistoia.
December 31, 2016
Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was born on 1 January 1449 in Florence.
February 4, 2016
Genoese late- Baroque painter Alessandro Magnasco was born on this day, February 4, 1667.
November 26, 2015
The 19th century Florentine sculptress Amalia Dupré was born on this day – November 26 – in 1842.
October 15, 2015
Milanese painter Giovanni Migliara – known especially for his vedute of famous city piazzas – was born on this day in 1785.
September 18, 2015
Realist painter Fausto Zonaro was born on this day in 1854.
