religious art

December 28, 2013
Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena , on view through 5 January at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT, is reviewed today in the New York Times .

December 24, 2013
SInce 1964, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has displayed its Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche .

December 12, 2013
Bartolomeo Manfredi died on this day in 1622.

December 2, 2013
A Vision of the Holy Family near Verona re-hung in Allen Memorial Art Museum’s Nord Gallery of Renaissance Art

November 27, 2013
Recently restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla have stirred the debate about whether women were leaders in the early Christian church.

November 24, 2013
A double-sided drawing by Andrea Mantegna sold at auction on 8 November 2013 for €509,650 ($680,000).

November 15, 2013
artgalleryofontario : Christ Washing His Disciples’ Feet , c. 1545 – 1555 Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian, 1518 – 1594 Oil on canvas Overall: 154.9 x 407.7 cm Gift by general subscription, 1959 © 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario

November 3, 2013
Italian painter Annibale Carracci was baptized on this day in 1560 in Bologna.

October 31, 2013
Baccio della Porta, known as Fra Bartolommeo, died on this day in 1517 in Florence.

October 2, 2013
October 3 marks the death of St. Francis of Assisi in 1226.