Bernini

July 31, 2017
Alessandro Algardi was born in Bologna on 31 July 1598.

June 10, 2017
Alessandro Algardi died on 10 June 1654 in Rome.

January 28, 2017
Giulio Rospigliosi, who eventually became Pope Clement IX (r. 1667-9), was born on 28 January 1600 in Pistoia.

December 24, 2016
Sculptor Antonio Giorgetti died 24 December 1669 in Rome.

November 15, 2016
Breaking News: Bernini’s Elephant Broken News from Rome reports that a vandal has defaced Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Elephant and Obelisk by breaking one of the marble mammal’s tusks.

September 25, 2016
Baroque architect Francesco Borromini was born on 25 September 1559 in a town near Lugano.

August 26, 2016
Chair of architecture at the University of Palermo, Ernesto Basile died on 26 August 1932.

July 29, 2016
On 29 July 1580, Francesco di Lorenzo Mochi was born in Montevarchi.

December 25, 2015
Charlemagne Crowned Imperator Romanorum by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800.

October 15, 2015
October 15 is the Feast Day of St. Teresa of Avila , the Spanish mystic who died on 4 October 1582 and was canonized in 1622.