renaissance art

April 6, 2017
Raphael died in Rome on 6 April 1520, likely his thirty-seventh birthday (unless, in fact, he was born on 28 March).

March 29, 2017
IAS-SPONSORED SESSIONS AT RSA 2017 This year, IAS is pleased to sponsor the following five sessions at the upcoming 2017 Renaissance Society of America conference in Chicago.

October 29, 2016
On 29 October, 312, Constantine the Great entered Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge on the previous day.

August 31, 2016
Painter and architect Nicola Filotesio, also known as Cola dell’Amatrice, died 31 August 1547 (or 1559) in Ascoli Piceno.

April 20, 2016
Italian police recover Nazi-looted paintings in Milan

July 17, 2015
DIGITAL EXHIBITION: “YASHIRO AND BERENSON: ART HISTORY BETWEEN JAPAN AND ITALY.” The Villa I Tatti is currently hosting an online exhibition documenting the long correspondence and scholarly relationship between Yokio Yashiro (1890-1975), a Japanese scholar, and Bernard Berenson.

July 5, 2015
Italian painter Paris Bordone was baptized on 5 July 1500 in Treviso.

September 28, 2014
Giusto di Giovanni de’ Menabuoi died on 28 September 1390, according to a tomb inscription in Padua Baptistery, which he decorated with frescoes starting in 1375.

July 2, 2014
Architect and sculptor Jacopo Sansovino was baptized on this day in 1486 in Florence.

June 15, 2014
Lisa Gherardini (aka Mona Lisa), the wife of Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo, was born on this day in 1479 in Florence.