Posts by Costanza Beltrami

January 15, 2018
Renaissance architect, painter, and stage designer Baldassare Peruzzi was born on 15 January 1481 in Ancaiano, near Siena.

December 18, 2017
The Birthday of Palazzo Barberini.

December 10, 2017
Sculptor Ottaviano Pannella Died on 10 December 1661 in Rome.

December 9, 2017
Art Historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann was born in Stendal, Germany, on 9 December 1717.

October 28, 2017
Thanks to a series of historical coincidences, 28 October is one of the most fateful days in Italian history, all the way from the Roman empire to the 1950s.

October 16, 2017
“Al ladro, al ladro!” (Stop thief!

September 18, 2017
The last documents referring to fourteenth-century painter Pietro Lorenzetti are dated between 18 September 1344 and 19 February 1345.

September 9, 2017
On 9 September 337 CE Constantine II , Constantius II, and Constans I succeeded their father Constantine I as co-emperors, dividing the Roman Empire between three Augusti.

August 21, 2017
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa , arguably the most famous painting in the history of Western art, was stolen from the Louve Museum in Paris at 7:20 on 21 August 1911.

August 14, 2017
Very few secure dates are known of the life of Mauro Codussi, the most important Renaissance architect active in Venice.

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