etruscan

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

January 21, 2018
First Etruscan Settlement Found in Sardinia An Etruscan settlement dating back to the Ninth Century BCE has been found on the Sardinian coasts near Olbia.

May 21, 2017
Castor and Pollux, whose astrological counterpart, Gemini, begins each year on 21 May, are important figures in Estruscan and Roman mythology and appear often in Italian art over the centuries.

May 12, 2017
A Postcard from the DIA This week I was lucky enough to spend some time at the fantastic Detroit Institute of Arts .

March 19, 2017
The celebration of the goddess Minerva called Quinquatria traditionally took place on 19 March during heyday of the Roman Republic.

February 27, 2017
Sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker Marino Marini was born on 27 February in 1901 in Pistoia.

February 12, 2017
The combined rites practiced by the cult of the Hirpi Sorani (“wolves of Soranus”) in the pagan peninsular countryside and those to honor Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome who were nursed by a wolf, partly explain the name of the Lupercalia, a festival celebrated each February.

December 25, 2016
A typical tough-as-nails Berliner was asked by a reporter why and how the city had returned to its normal semi-functional status this week, so soon after the 19 December terrorist attack on the Breitscheidplatz Christmas Market leaving 12 dead and nearly 50 injured.

November 20, 2016
Drones Document the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval Treasures of Volterra Inhabited for nearly 3,000 years, Volterra’s history is most strongly tied to Etruscan and Roman settlements.

October 23, 2016
Today is the feast day of San Giovanni da Capestrano (Kapisztrán János in Hungarian).