Posts in Category: Italian

Giulia Lama

On August 2, 2026 - 18th Century, Italian, october 1

Giulia Lama, October 1, 1681 – October 8, 1747, was an Italian painter, draftsman, poet, and mathematician born and active in Venice. She received her first artistic and mathematical instruction from her father, the painter Agostino Lama, and trained in the circle of Antonio Molinari alongside her friend Giambattista Piazzetta.

Lama established an independent career as a portraitist and history painter, receiving private commissions and producing large religious paintings and altarpieces for Venetian churches. Her surviving drawings show that she studied both male and female figures from life, and she was also known in contemporary intellectual circles for her poetry and mathematical learning.

Lama remained in Venice throughout her life and was buried in the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Her paintings and drawings are held by the Uffizi Gallery, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Ca’ Rezzonico, and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper; the modern recovery of her work has included the reattribution of paintings formerly assigned to several male contemporaries.

Paris Bordone

On June 15, 2026 - 16th Century, Italian, july 15

Paris Bordone, July 15, 1500 – January 19, 1571, was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance. He was born in Treviso and moved to Venice while still young. According to early sources, he trained briefly with Titian, though his independent career developed outside Titian’s workshop system. He worked in Venice, Treviso, and other northern Italian centers, and also received commissions abroad.

Bordone painted portraits, mythological subjects, religious works, and allegorical compositions. His style is associated with the Venetian use of color, elaborate textiles, and architectural settings. He often combined portraiture with narrative or symbolic elements, and his works show connections to Titian, Giorgione, and later Mannerist taste.

Bordone did not found a formal school, though his work circulated widely among Venetian and northern Italian patrons. His paintings are held in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan; and the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome.

Benozzo Gozzoli

On May 27, 2026 - 15th Century, Italian

Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian painter, c.1421 1497

Francesco Primaticcio

On April 28, 2026 - 16th Century, april 30, Italian

Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect and sculptor, April 30, 1504 – 1570

Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi

On March 6, 2026 - 16th Century, Italian, march 7

Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter, March 7, 1481 – January 6, 1536

Pietro Novelli

On February 26, 2026 - 17th Century, Italian, march 2

Pietro Novelli, Italian painter, March 2, 1603 - August 27, 1647

Giuseppe De Nittis

On February 16, 2026 - 19th Century, february 25, Italian

Giuseppe De Nittis, Italian painter, February 25, 1846 – August 21, 1884

Mattia Preti

On February 6, 2026 - 17th Century, february 24, Italian

Mattia Preti, Italian artist, February 24, 1613 – January 3, 1699

Cavaliere d’Arpino

On February 1, 2026 - 16th Century, 17th Century, february 14, Italian

Cavaliere d'Arpino, Italian painter, February 14, 1568 – July 3, 1640

Guercino

On January 28, 2026 - 17th Century, february 8, Italian

Guercino, Italian Painter, February 8, 1591 – December 9, 1666