Venice

January 1, 2016
Francesco Guardi died on New Year’s Day 1793 in Venice , where he had spent his career as a veduta painter.

December 6, 2015
Ferruccio Bortoluzzi was born on the Feast of St. Nicholas (6 November) 1920 in Venice.

November 17, 2015
Death in Venice? Sculptor Tullio Lombardo died on 17 November 1532.

October 21, 2015
After widespread protests, including a flash-mob exhibition in Piazza San Marco, photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin will show his Mostri a Venezia (Monsters in Venice) at the former Olivetti typewriter showroom now owned by Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI).

September 14, 2015
Gianni Berengo Gardin’s series of photographs, “Monsters in Venice,” hauntingly captures the continuing confrontation between the tourist economy, as represented by huge cruise ships, and the protection of cultural patrimony.

August 19, 2015
The neoclassical sculptor Giuseppe De Fabris was born on this day in 1790.

August 19, 2015
After publishing its short list of 200 candidates on 8 July , the Italian ministry of culture has announced the appointments of twenty new museum directors for Italy’s most acclaimed museums in Caserta, Florence, Genoa, Mantua, Milan, Modena, Naples, Paestum, Perugia, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Taranto, Turin, Urbino, and Venice.

August 15, 2015
Agostino Carracci, older brother of Annibale and cousin of Lodovico, was born on 15 August 1557 in Bologna.

July 8, 2015
Ermanno Rivetti reports in the Art Newspaper on plans to hire new directors for 20 of Italy’s major art museums.

July 5, 2015
Italian painter Paris Bordone was baptized on 5 July 1500 in Treviso.