Raphael

May 3, 2016
Night falls on a Neapolitan master: Baroque painter Francesco Solimena died 3 May 1747 at the age of 89 in the borough of Barra.

March 28, 2016
Earlier this year Penn State University Press published Raphael’s Ostrich by Una Roman D’Elia, associate professor of art history at Queen’s University.

February 2, 2016
Going beyond Groundhog Day: 2 February marks the celebration of the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.

November 10, 2015
Bronzes that never were?

November 1, 2015
Giulio Romano Died on All Saints’ Day (1 November) in 1546 in Mantua.

September 29, 2015
The Feast of Saint Michael Archangel is celebrated today, 29 September.

July 30, 2015
The Worcester Art Museum is currently exhibiting its so-called Northbrook Madonna (above right) alongside one of America’s great art treasurers, the lovely devotional image showing the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, known as the Small-Cowper Madonna , by High Renaissance master Raphael , on loan from the National Gallery of Art (above left).

January 23, 2015
Art patron and cloth merchant Taddeo Taddei was born on 23 January 1470 in Florence.

January 22, 2015
The Italian banker and art patron Bindo Altoviti died on 22 January 1557 in his native Rome.

January 5, 2015
Wool Merchant Agnolo di Francesco Doni Died on 5 January 1539 in Florence.