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January 19, 2018
The artist Roberto Bompiani died on January 19, 1908 in Rome, in the midst of working on a monumental work entitled The Apotheosis of Sappho.

September 2, 2016
Neoclassical artist Vincenzo Camuccini died on 2 September 1844 in Rome.

July 4, 2015
Italian painter Giambettino Cignaroli was born on 4 July 1706 in Verona, where he spent his career and became the city’s leading painter in the Rococo era.

October 3, 2013
Sculptor Giulio Monteverde died on this day in 1917, just five days shy of his 80th birthday.

July 23, 2013
On this day in 1844, Italian artist Hermann Corrodi was born in Frascati.