still life

March 20, 2022
Happy First Day of Spring!

June 26, 2020
Mannerist painter Suor Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676) was born Theodora in Moncalvo, Italy, to an artistic family.

February 28, 2018
Giovanna Garzoni (1600 – 1670), a pioneering female artist of her time, earned widespread respect and admiration for her meticulous still life paintings.

December 7, 2017
Painter Evaristo Baschenis was Born in Bergamo on 7 December 1617.

July 20, 2016
Italian modernist Giorgio Morandi was born 20 July 1890 in Bologna.

June 18, 2016
Italian modernist Giorgio Morandi died June 18, 1964, in Bologna.

October 30, 2015
On 30 October 1500, the Signoria of Venice granted the Nuremberg merchant Anton Kolb a printing privilege for Jacopo de’ Barbaris View of Venice .

July 21, 2015
The late-Baroque painter Cristoforo Munari was born on this day in 1667.

September 18, 2014
blantonmuseum: Dog with a Biscuit and a Chinese Cup by Giovanna Garzoni, 1640s Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) was among the first women painters to specialize in still life.

July 11, 2014
On this day in 1593, Giuseppe Arcimboldo died in his hometown.