portraiture

November 2, 2014
Italian Mercenary, Bartolomeo Colleoni Died on 2 November 1475.

September 27, 2014
Pastellist and painter Rosalba Carriera was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome on 27 September 1705.

September 24, 2014
The classical scholar and poet Angelo Ambrogini, known as Poliziano, died on 24 September 1494 at the age of 40.

August 19, 2014
On this day in 14 CE, Gaius Octavius, known as Augustus, died in Rome.

July 5, 2014
philamuseum : These days you might send selfies to your crushes, but back in sixteenth-century Florence, you’d have a portrait made of yourself as a Greek hero to send to your beloved.

June 15, 2014
Lisa Gherardini (aka Mona Lisa), the wife of Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo, was born on this day in 1479 in Florence.

May 21, 2014
Parmigianino’s Schiava Turca (Turkish Slave) is on view in New York.

May 17, 2014
Through 15 June at the Museo Correr in Venice, a recently rediscovered drawing attributed to Titian forms the center of the exhibition, A Self-Portrait by Titian.

May 14, 2014
The Frick Collection hosts Parmigianino’s so-called Schiava Turca from now through 20 July 2014 .

January 30, 2014
Florentine artist Franciabigio was born on this day in 1484 in Florence.