religious art

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.

January 16, 2016
On 16 January 1498, Francesco di Giovanni, known as Botticini, died in Florence.

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.

September 26, 2015
The feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian has been celebrated on 26 September since 1970 though the traditional Roman calendar honors the saints on 27 September, the anniversary of their death in 287 CE .

September 19, 2015
The 19th century religious painter Pietro Ivaldi , who died on this day in 1885, was born both deaf and dumb.