This Day in History
August 17, 2015
Ugo Carrega – leading figure of the 1960s Visual Poetry movement in Milan – was born on this day in 1935.
August 15, 2015
Agostino Carracci, older brother of Annibale and cousin of Lodovico, was born on 15 August 1557 in Bologna.
August 9, 2015
Ferdinando de’ Medici was born 9 August 1663.
August 8, 2015
Architect Luca Beltrami died 8 August 1933 in Milan.
August 6, 2015
Federico Zuccaro died 6 August 1609 in Ancona.
August 6, 2015
Architect Nicola Salvi was born 6 August 1697.
August 5, 2015
Printmaker and painter Antonio Tempesta died 5 August 1630.
August 4, 2015
Andrea di Marco della Robbia died 4 August 1525.
August 2, 2015
Baroque architect Francesco Borromini died on 2 August 1667, just shy of his sixty-eighth birthday.

