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December 22, 2019
On This Day (22 December) in 1490 the Capella Maggiore of Santa Maria Novella was Opened.

April 3, 2019
The noted late-nineteenth century restorer Gaetano Bianchi (born February 1819) died on this day, 1892.

October 5, 2018
Private Patronage and Self-Fashioning Practices in Quattrocento Florence

June 30, 2017
Florence is dominated by the silhouette of its cathedral dome.

June 2, 2017
Florentine apothecary and diarist Luca Landucci was buried on 2 June 1516.

December 30, 2016
On 30 December 1365 Andrea di Firenze Signed a Contract for the Decoration of the Spanish Chapel, Santa Maria Novella in Florence.

July 14, 2015
Angelo Ambrogini, better known as Poliziano was born on 14 July 1454 (d. 24 September 1494) in Montepulciano.

September 24, 2014
The classical scholar and poet Angelo Ambrogini, known as Poliziano, died on 24 September 1494 at the age of 40.