Deaths: • Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677) Architecture: • Palazzo Rosso completed in Genova. Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Diana ed Endimione (c.1675-80) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Cleopatra’s Banquet (c.1675-80) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Hagar in the Desert (1675-80)
Genova (Italia)
Museums: • Collezione d’Arte della Banca Carige • Palazzo Bianco: Via Garibaldi 11, 16124 Genova • Palazzo Rosso: Via Garibaldi 18, 16124 Genova Births: • Colombo, Cristoforo (1451-1506) • Gassman, Vittorio (1922-2000) • Vespucci, Simonetta (1453-1476) Deaths: • Doria, Andrea (1466-1560) See also: • Cities | Italia
Deposizione (c.1600-1604)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Deposizione (Entombment of Christ) c.1600–1604 Oil on canvas, 300 x 203 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano The Deposition, considered one of Caravaggio‘s greatest masterpieces, was commissioned by Girolamo Vittrice for his family chapel in S. Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) in Rome.…
1604
Rulers: • Henri III, King of Navarre (1572-1610) • Henri IV, King of France (1589-1610) • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Literature: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): All’s Well That Ends Well (1604-05) • Shakespeare,…
Pinacoteca Vaticana
Founded: 1932 Address: WF42+7WV, Viale Centro del Bosco, 00120 Città del Vaticano Website: https://www.vaticanmuseumsrome.com/pinacoteca Collection: • Caravaggio (1571-1610): Deposizione (c.1600-04) • Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427): Dono alle fanciulle povere (1425) • Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427): La nascita di San Nicola (1425) • Gentile…
Vaticano
Church: • Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano: Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano Museums: • Cappella Sistina: Viale Vaticano 2, Città del Vaticano • Musei Vaticani: Viale Vaticano 6, 00120 Città del Vaticano • Pinacoteca Vaticana: Viale Vaticano, 00165 Roma See also: • Colle Vaticano (Roma)
Germantown, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
“Market Square, Germantown, Pennsylvania”, by William Britton, c.1820. Louisa May Alcott’s House Births: • Alcott, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) See also: • Districts | Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Louisa May Alcott
(1832–1888) Works: • A Garland for Girls (English) • A Modern Cinderella (English) • A Modern Mephistopheles (English) • A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School (English) • An Old-Fashioned Girl (English) • Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume…
Naissance de Vénus (1879)
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Naissance de Vénus (Birth of Venus) 1879 Oil on canvas, 300 x 215 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Le jour des morts (1859)
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le jour des morts (All Saints’ Day) 1859 Oil on canvas, 147 x 120 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux William Bouguereau presented at the Salon of 1859 Wounded Love, The Portrait of Madame Duret, painted in 1857, as well…