ILLE HIC EST RAPHAEL TIMVIT QVO SOSPITE VINCI RERVM MAGNA PARENS ET MORIENTE MORI #raphael #pantheon #bembo

ON THIS DAY > 6 April 1520 > Raphael (1483-1520) dies in Rome, aged 37, and, at his own request, is later buried in the Pantheon, in an ancient sarcophagus, and celebrated with a Latin distich written by the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547). #raphael #pantheon #bembo

Quid de libris dicam, qui illic erant innumerabiles, non dum Latinis cogniti? Heu, quot nunc magnorum nomina virorum peribunt? Secunda mors ista Homero est, secundus Platoni obitus. Ubi nunc philosophorum aut poetarum ingenia requiremus? Extinctus est fons musarum, [...]. #piccolomini #pinturicchio

ON THIS DAY > 30 March 1432 > The future Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed II (1432-81) is born in Edirne. On 29 May 1453 Mehmed II, aged 21, would finally conquer Constantinople and bring an end to the Byzantine Empire in the East #mehmedii #constantinople #gentilebellini

"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus

Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, is also depicted as a young boy, together with his two older brothers Piero and Giovanni, the future Pope Leo X (1513-21), by Ghirlandaio in the Sassetti Chapel in Santa Trinita in Florence. #medici #santatrinita #ghirlandaio

ON THIS DAY > 17 March 1516 > Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), third son of Lorenzo the Magnificent and brother of Pope Leo X (1513-21), dies in Florence and is later buried in a monumental tomb by Michelangelo in the New Sacristy at San Lorenzo #medici #sanlorenzo #michelangelo

The Italian state has bought Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini (c. 1598) for €30m. The painting, which depicts the future Pope Urban VIII (1623-44), will now enter the collection in Palazzo Barberini in Rome > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #caravaggio #barberini #urbanviii

"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus

Leonardo Bruni also suggested an initial iconographic programme, later modified to ten panels, of Old Testament scenes for the third set of bronze doors, the Gates of Paradise, made by Lorenzo Ghiberti for the Baptistery in Florence. #leonardobruni #lorenzoghiberti #florencebaptistery

Leonardo Bruni's multi-volume History of the Florentine People, now published in the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is one of the key texts of our advanced Latin course Italian Renaissance Latin Texts, 1453-1513 > www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #leonardobruni #florence #itatti

POSTQVAM LEONARDVS E VITA MIGRAVIT / HISTORIA LVGET ELOQVENTIA MVTA EST / FERTVRQVE MVSAS TVM GRAECAS TVM / LATINAS LACRIMAS TENERE NON POTVISSE #leonardobruni #santacroce #florence

ON THIS DAY > 9 March 1444 > Italian (Aretine) humanist and historian Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370-1444) dies in Florence and is subsequently buried in the Franciscan church of Santa Croce in a tomb designed by Bernardo Rossellino. #leonardobruni #santacroce #florence

"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus

ON THIS DAY > 6 March 1447. Tommaso Parentucelli is elected as Pope Nicholas V (1447-55) at the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. #nicholasv #fraangelico #renaissancerome #vatican

Michelangelo at Christie's (NYC) > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #michelangelo #sistinechapel #christies

TOMORROW: Santa Maria Novella as an Architectural and Artistic Space (online seminar), Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, 12.00-14.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #santamarianovella #florence #ghirlandaio #filippinolippi

THIS WEEK: Santa Maria Novella as an Architectural and Artistic Space at the British Museum in London (study session), Friday, 19 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00, London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #santamarianovella #britishmuseum

PALAZZO STROZZI > Fra Angelico (exhibition), 26 Sep 2025-25 Jan 2026: www.palazzostrozzi.org/en/archivio/... #palazzostrozzi #fraangelico

NEXT WEEK: Santa Maria Novella as an Architectural and Artistic Space (online seminar), Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, 14.00-16.00, London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #santamarianovella #florence #ghirlandaio #filippinolippi

MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT > Filippino Lippi and Rome, Thursday, 11 Dec 2025: www.medici.org/roundtable-f... #mediciarchiveproject #filippinolippi

Pietro Perugino in the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #perugino #madonnaandchild

THIS WEEK: Florence Baptistery and its Bronze Doors at the British Museum in London (study session), Wednesday, 3 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00 London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #florencebaptistery #britishmuseum

"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus

NEXT MONTH: Santa Maria Novella as an Architectural and Artistic Space at the British Museum in London (study session), Friday, 19 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00 London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #santamarianovella #britishmuseum

THIS WEEK: Andrea Pisano and the Marble Reliefs on the Campanile di Giotto (online seminar), Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, 14.00-16.00 London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #andreapisano #campaniledigiotto

"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus

NEXT MONTH: The Baptistery in Florence and its Bronze Doors at the British Museum in London (study session), Wednesday, 3 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00 London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #florencebaptistery #britishmuseum

THIS WEEK: Giorgio Vasari on Andrea Tafi (online seminar), Thursday, 20 Nov 2025, 14.00-16.00 London, UK, time, online via Zoom. Send DM for details and to register! #vasari #florencebaptistery

"Ut aquas bibamus Heliconis dulces... / Ut campos perveniamus in Elysios claros... " #timothyseus