19th century
June 16, 2016
Giovan Battista Filippo Basile , who died on this day in 1891, was an Italian architect based in Palermo.
March 10, 2016
30 never-seen-before drawings from the Villa Piatti collection in Florence are now on view in Milan.
January 31, 2016
Ernesto Basile was born on 31 January 1857 in Palermo, where he would become chair of architecture at the city’s university.
January 31, 2016
Sculptor Costantino Barbella was born on the last day of January in 1852 in Chieti.
January 20, 2016
The sculptor Pietro Magni died on 20 January 1877.
January 5, 2016
Cultivated in Carrara: sculptor Pietro Lazzarini was born 5 January 1842 in the city renowned for its luminous quarried marble.
December 31, 2015
The “ Master of Swish ,” Giovanni Boldini, was born on the last day of the year, 1842, in Ferrara, Italy.
December 29, 2015
Sculptor Girolamo Masini was born 29 December 1840 in Florence.
