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June 23, 2019
Happy Birthday to the sculptor, jeweler, and stage designer Arnaldo Pomodoro!

May 26, 2019
Vincenzo Danti, the author of the Trattato delle perfette proporzioni (1567) , died on May 26, 1576.

June 17, 2018
The Pollaiuolo Brothers and the Capitoline Wolf.

May 30, 2018
Discovered Digit Determined to be Part of Constantine’s Colossal Bronze Hand The Art Newspaper has reported that a bronze appendage once believed to be a toe has recently been identified as one of the fingers missing from the colossal (albeit fragmentary) bronze bits of Emperor Constantine in Rome’s Capitoline Museum.

May 20, 2018
Horse Found in Pompeii Excavation A complete figure of a horse buried in volcanic matter has been discovered in Pompeii for the very first time.

December 28, 2017
Sculptor and Medallist Bertoldo di Giovanni Died on 28 December 1491.

March 7, 2017
Sculptor Gaetano Orsolini was born 7 March 1884 in Montegiorgio, a town equidistant from Ancona and Ascoli Piceno.

December 1, 2016
Lorenzo Ghiberti Died on 1 December 1455 in Florence.

August 28, 2016
Etruscan Inscription Reveals Name of Primary Goddess

January 17, 2016
Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù died on 17 January 1991 in Rome at age 82.