sixteenth-century Italian art

January 27, 2018
Milanese painter and art theorist Gian Paolo Lomazzo died on 27 January 1592.

September 29, 2017
Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was likely born on 29 September 1571, for scholars agree that he was born in the fall of this year, and  29 September is the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel , Caravaggio’s namesake.