Vasari

December 10, 2015
Today is the anniversary of the death of Paolo Uccello (née Paolo di Dono), the early Renaissance Florentine painter, who died on December 10, 1475.

November 22, 2015
Pietro Torrigiani, Supposedly Born in Florence on 22 November 1472.

October 18, 2015
October 18 is the Feast day of St. Luke , gospel writer and patron saint of artists, owing to the Christian tradition that he painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.

August 5, 2015
Printmaker and painter Antonio Tempesta died 5 August 1630.

June 29, 2015
On 29 July 1539 , the young duke of Florence Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574) married the seventeen-year-old Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562).

January 22, 2015
The Italian banker and art patron Bindo Altoviti died on 22 January 1557 in his native Rome.

December 14, 2014
Mary sits on an elaborately decorated throne, her lap creating a throne for her son Jesus.

October 14, 2014
Florentine artist Alesso Baldovinetti may have been born on 14 October 1425.

May 1, 2014
On this day in 1456, painter and Carmelite friar Fra Filippo Lippi abducted an Augustinian nun named Lucrezia Buti.

August 29, 2013
Ermanno Rivetti reports in the Art Newspaper that part of the V asari Corridor roof has collapsed.