Venice

December 3, 2017
Roman Emperor Diocletian Died 3 December 312.

November 5, 2017
Painter and draughtsman Pietro Longhi [née Pietro Falca] was born 5 November 1701 in Venice.

October 5, 2017
Veduta painter Francesco Guardi was born on 5 October 1712 in Venice.

September 4, 2017
Architect, theorist, and designer Aldo Rossi died on 4 September 1997 in Milan, the city where he spent a good portion of his career.

August 30, 2017
Giandomenico Tiepolo was born on 30 August 1727 in Venice.

August 7, 2017
Architect Vincenzo Scamozzi died on 7 August 1616 in Venice, where he spent the latter part of his career after getting started in his hometown of Vicenza.

July 23, 2017
Filippo Parodi died in Genoa on July 22, 1702.

June 29, 2017
Sculptor Antonio Corradini died in Naples on 29 June 1752.

June 26, 2017
Italian painter, engraver, architect, and theorist Antonio Visentini died on this day – June 26th – in 1782 in his hometown of Venice.

June 25, 2017
Roberto Cuoghi at the Venice Biennale Roberto Cuoghi’s Imitazione di Cristo (2017) is certainly one of the darker features at a Biennale that has garnered much criticism for being too “hippy,” cheerful, and politically tone-deaf.