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December 31, 2013
Today is the Feast Day of Pope St. Sylvester, who baptized the Emperor Constantine in the early 4th century.

December 21, 2013
Happy Birthday Masaccio !

October 2, 2013
October 3 marks the death of St. Francis of Assisi in 1226.

September 2, 2013
Taddeo Zuccaro died on this day in 1566 in Rome, one day after his thirty-seventh birthday.

August 31, 2013
Jesuit artist Andrea Pozzo died on this day in 1709 in Vienna, where he was working for members of the Austrian court .

August 19, 2013
Painter Andrea del Castagno was buried on this day in 1457 in Florence.

August 15, 2013
On this day in 1483, Pope Sixtus IV dedicated the Sistine Chapel to the Assumption of the Virgin , celebrated each year on 15 August.

August 12, 2013
Carlo Avvisati and Ermanno Rivetti report in The Art Newspaper about conservators using laser technology to clean the delicate murals in the Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii.

August 5, 2013
The Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Sodoma , was documented at work in the cloister of Monte Oliveto Maggiore on 5 August 1505.

July 26, 2013
Italian-American painter Constantino Brumidi was born in Rome on this day in 1805.