siena

July 1, 2019
Coppo di Marcovaldo: Duecento Soldier and Artist

May 19, 2019
The Palio in Ferrara

January 6, 2019
Baldassare Peruzzi, architect of St. Peter’s and for the Republic of Siena, died in Rome on January 6, 1537.

September 23, 2018
On the 23rd of September 1439, Francesco di Giorgio Martini was baptized in Siena.

June 9, 2018
Today in 1311 Duccio di Buoninsegna’s (c.1260-1319) Maestà altarpiece was installed in Siena Cathedral; the city of Siena commissioned the altarpiece in 1308.

June 1, 2018
Florentine painter Biagio d’Antonio Tucci died 1 June 1516 in his hometown.

May 18, 2018
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi died on 18 May 1551 in Siena.

May 7, 2018
On 7 May 1337 goldsmith Ugolino di Vieri received the first payment for his masterpiece, the reliquary of the Santo Corporale of Bolsena.

February 23, 2018
Pope Eugenius IV (born Gabriele Condulmer in 1383) died on February 23, 1447.

January 15, 2018
Sculptor, medallion maker, and draughtsman Luciano Mercante died on 15 January 1982.