Anne Leader

August 23, 2018
On 23 August 1339, the General Council of Siena voted to accept the extraordinarily ambitious “ Duomo Nuovo “ project for Siena Cathedral .

August 15, 2018
August 15th is the Feast Day of the Assumption of the Virgin.

August 1, 2018
Painter Sebastiano Ricci was baptized on 1 August 1659 in Belluno .

July 24, 2018
Neoclassical architect Giocondo Albertolli was born on 24 July 1743  in the town of Bedano in Switzerland.

July 19, 2018
Modernist architect Giuseppe Terragni died on 19 July 1943 in Como, Lombardy.

June 30, 2018
Florentine sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio may have died on 30 June 1488 in Venice, where he was at work on his equestrian portrait of mercenary soldier Bartolommeo Colleoni.

June 28, 2018
Architect and engineer Domenico Fontana died 28 June 1607 in Naples.

June 21, 2018
Architect Pier Luigi Nervi was Born on 21 June 1891 in Sondrio.

June 13, 2018
Today is the Feast Day of St. Anthony of Padua , who died on 13 June 1231.

June 1, 2018
Florentine painter Biagio d’Antonio Tucci died 1 June 1516 in his hometown.