history

October 21, 2016
Roman vedutista (view painter) Giovanni Paolo Panini died on 21 October 1765.

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

October 9, 2016
On 9 October 768 Pope Stephen II saw Charlegmagne and Carloman I named kings of the Franks, paving the way for Charlegmagne’s eventual rise to emperor in 800.

October 7, 2016
Italo-Argentine artist Lucio Fontana died on 7 October 1968.

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.

October 2, 2016
Andreas Vesalius died on 2 October 1564 at age 49.

September 30, 2016
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September 16, 2016
Official protocol of the City of Orvieto, 16 September 1310, Archive of the Community of Orvieto, Deliberations of the Commune from 1310-1312, fol.

September 13, 2016
Italian modernist Mario Sironi died on 13 August 1961 in Milan.

September 9, 2016
Baroque painter Felice Torelli was born on 9 September 1667 to a family of Veronese artists, including the noted violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709).