Pietro da Cortona

June 15, 2025
Today is Trinity Sunday, celebrated in the Western Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost as a day to focus on the doctrine that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at once.

December 2, 2018
December 2: The Feast Day of Saint Bibiana.

November 27, 2017
Painter and Architect, Pietro Berretini was Baptized on 27 November 1597.

May 16, 2017
Painter-architect Pietro Berretini, known as Pietro da Cortona , died on 16 May 1669 in Rome.

January 28, 2017
Giulio Rospigliosi, who eventually became Pope Clement IX (r. 1667-9), was born on 28 January 1600 in Pistoia.

August 10, 2014
Today is the Feast of St. Lawrence (San Lorenzo), who died on 10 August 258 in Rome.

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.