religious art

April 21, 2016
Happy Birthday to the early-Baroque painter, etcher, and print-maker Ludovico Carracci !

February 18, 2016
Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico, died on 18 February 1455 in Rome.

February 15, 2016
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Il Sodoma, died on 15 February 1549 in Siena, where he spent the majority of his career.

February 2, 2016
Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (the “squinter”), is believed to have been born on 2 February 1591 in Cento.

January 20, 2016
Today (20 January) is the feast day of St. Sebastian.

January 17, 2016
17 January is the feast day of St. Anthony Abbot, who is revered as the founder of Christian monasticism in the east.

December 27, 2015
Today (27 December) is the Feast Day of St. John the Evangelist.

November 26, 2015
The 19th century Florentine sculptress Amalia Dupré was born on this day – November 26 – in 1842.

November 22, 2015
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October 18, 2015
October 18 is the Feast day of St. Luke , gospel writer and patron saint of artists, owing to the Christian tradition that he painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.