genoa

March 25, 2017
Swiss-Italian sculptor and architect Taddeo Carlone died in Genoa, 25 March 1613.

March 18, 2017
Neoclassical architect of Swiss origin Simone Cantoni was born on 2 September 1739 in Mendrisio, Ticino.

February 12, 2017
Mario Mafai, who with his wife Antonietta Raphaël was one of the central figures of a group of artists called the Scuola di Via Cavour, was born 12 February 1902 in Rome, where he lived and worked for much of his life until his death there in 1965.

November 6, 2016
Andy Warhol and Pop Society at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa Pop Society , a retrospective of some of Andy Warhol’s instantly recognizable as well as not-as-well-known work opened at Genova’s Palazzo Ducale in late October and runs through February 2017.

November 5, 2016
Arte Povera and Conceptual Art Italian artist Giulio Paolini was born on 5 November 1940 in Genoa.

October 20, 2016
Perino del Vaga died on 20 October 1547 in Rome at the age of 46.

October 16, 2016
Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Oscar Wilde was born 16 October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.

October 3, 2016
Sculptor Giulio Monteverde was born on 8 October 1837, in Bistagno, dying in Rome on 3 October 1917, just five days shy of his 80th birthday.

September 9, 2016
Painter Pompeo Mariani was born on 9 September 1857 in Monza.

June 24, 2016
According to one of two existing death certificates, painter Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli died on 24 June 1926 in Nervi, near Genoa.