renaissance art

April 17, 2025
The First Holy Thursday: A Momentous Day and Night.

June 19, 2020
Call for Papers: Contagium: Exploring the Nexus Between Confraternity, Pandemic and Renaissance Society

The Society for Confraternity Studies will sponsor a number of sessions at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (7- 10 April 2021).

August 6, 2019
Call for Papers – Women and Confraternities: The Hidden Voices of Renaissance Piety and Charity

This RSA panel aims to amplify the hidden voices of women who were members of lay confraternities or females who found themselves in the ambit of these charitable associations.

February 7, 2019
7 February is the anniversary of the translation of the relics of St. Romuald in 1481 from his burial site in Val di Castro, where he died in 1027, to Fabriano.

December 10, 2018
Italian Paintings at the Hermitage Museum

October 29, 2018
Unicorns in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art

August 13, 2018
The Hounds of Sant’ Agostino, San Gimignano

May 13, 2018
Real Italian Renaissance Fashion The Metropolitan Museum of Art ’s annual gala held this past weekend attracted quite a bit of outrage and attention for various haute couture interpretations of the theme ““Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Much was made of the influence of painting upon the designs.

January 11, 2018
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (better known as Parmigianino) was born 11 January 1503.

August 24, 2017
Parmigianino Died on 24 August 1540 in Casalmaggiore at age 37.