Month: August 2012

Museo di Capodimonte (Napoli)

Founded: 1757 Location: Via Miano 2, 80131 Napoli Website: https://capodimonte.cultura.gov.it/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also: • Museums | Napoli (Italia)

1757

Events: • Museo di Capodimonte founded in Naples. Births: • Barrenechea y Morante, María Rita (1757-1795) • Blake, William (1757-1827) • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Deaths: • Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): La fortezza di Königstein (1756-58) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780): La fortezza di Königstein vista…

Napoli (Italia)

Museums: • Galleria di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano: Via Toledo 185, Napoli • Museo di Capodimonte: Via Miano 2, 80131 Napoli • Pio Monte della Misericordia: Via dei Tribunali 253, Napoli Naples in Art: Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Naval Battle in the Gulf of…

Fillide Melandroni (c.1597)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Fillide Melandroni (Portrait of a Courtesan) c.1597, destroyed in 1945 Oil on canvas, 66.8 x 53 cm Bode Museum, Berlin (former Kaiser Friedrich Museum) See also: • Fillide Melandroni

1945

Rulers: • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945) • Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953) Events: • Portrait of a Courtesan, Fillide Melandroni (c.1597) and San Matteo e l’angelo (1602) by Caravaggio (in Kaiser Friedrich Museum) are destroyed during bombardments in Berlin. Births: • Adams, Maud (1945)…

Bode Museum

Opened: 1904 Originally called Kaiser Friedrich Museum Location: Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin Website: https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/bode-museum/home/ Collection: • Caravaggio (1571-1610): Fillide Melandroni (c.1597); destroyed in 1945 • Caravaggio (1571-1610): San Matteo e l’angelo (1602); destroyed in 1945 See also: • Berlin (Germany) | Museums

Marta e Maria Maddalena (c.1598)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Marta e Maria Maddalena (Martha and Mary Magdalene) c.1598 Oil and tempera on canvas, 100 x 134.5 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit “There is a Michelangelo da Caravaggio who is doing extraordinary things in Rome.” This quote by a…

Detroit Institute of Arts

Established: 1885 Opened: 1927 Address: 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States Website: https://dia.org/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…