portraiture

November 14, 2016
Rediscovered hand-drawn portraits in Vasari’s Lives As a result of a study conducted leafing through 85 copies of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives in Italy, USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Belgium, and Spain, the website ‘Letteratura artistica.

November 7, 2016
3: Triple portraits in Italian art Triple portraits, depicting the same subject from three different angles, were produced within the Renaissace debate about the relative merits of painting and sculpture, the so-called Paragone .

October 3, 2016
Actress Eleonora Duse was born on 3 October 1858 in Vigevano (Lombardy).

October 3, 2016
Sculptor Giulio Monteverde was born on 8 October 1837, in Bistagno, dying in Rome on 3 October 1917, just five days shy of his 80th birthday.

September 12, 2016
A new Caravaggio: the Rediscovered Portrait of Prospero Farinacci Caravaggio’s early production as a portrait painter is still the subject of research and a fount of enigmas.

September 9, 2016
Painter Pompeo Mariani was born on 9 September 1857 in Monza.

August 12, 2016
After the sack of Rome of 1527, the Florentine overthrew to the ruling Medici family and established a short-lived Republic.

July 11, 2016
Italian sculptor Mino da Fiesole, also known as Mino di Giovanni, died on 11 July 1484 in Florence.

June 27, 2016
Roman caricatures on display Tailors, hat makers, musicians, puppeteers, star alongside popes and cardinals in the exhibition L’ Arte del sorriso.

June 24, 2016
According to one of two existing death certificates, painter Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli died on 24 June 1926 in Nervi, near Genoa.