Italy On This Day

One of first to paint realistic landscapes A self-portrait of Alesso Baldovinetti from a fragment of damaged fresco, now in the Accade...

Talented Friar became patron of Catholic artists A detail from a Luca Signorelli fresco in Orvieto cathedral, thought to represent...

Mathematician famous for exploring perspective Della Francesca's assumed self- portrait in his Ressurrection Piero della France...

Friar rated equal of Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo Bartolommeo's God the Father with SS Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalene ...

Banker who founded the Medici dynasty This portrait of Cosimo by Jacopo da Contormo  can be viewed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence ...