architecture

May 4, 2020
A Case of Teenage Diplomacy: Galeazzo Maria Sforza’s First Impression of the Medici Palazzo

November 17, 2019
On this day (17, November) in 1744, the sculptor and architect Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli died in St. Petersburg, Russia.

October 31, 2019
Just In Time For Halloween… Cortenova’s “House of Witches.”

June 16, 2019
Filippo Juvarra is believed to have been born on June 16, 1678 in Messina; his father was a silversmith whose approach to applied art and decoration likely influenced his son’s architectural ornamentation.

June 3, 2019
The Fairytale Castello Rocchetta Mattei and Its Creator

April 11, 2019
Architect Donato Bramante died on 11 April 1514 in Rome.

March 6, 2019
Architect Guarino Guarini died on 6 March 1683 in Milan at age 59.

January 31, 2019
Carlo Maderno died on 31 January 1629 in Rome, where he had risen to become one of city’s most important architects.

December 16, 2018
Antonio Corazzi was Born in Livorno on December 16 1792.

December 9, 2018
Benedetto Innocente Alfieri died in Turin on December 9th, 1767.