history

May 14, 2017
Sculptor Silpa Bhirasri, born Corrado Feroci, died on 14 May 1962 in Bangkok.

May 8, 2017
Baroque painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as il Baciccio, was born on 8 May 1639 in Genoa.

April 23, 2017
On 23 April 303 Geṓrgios, the young Roman Legion officer was executed.

April 23, 2017
The Temple of Venus Eryx was dedicated on 23 April 215 BCE.

April 16, 2017
Though he had reigned only three months, Roman Emperor Marcus Salvius Otho had showed in this short time more wisdom and grace than anyone had expected when he committed suicide on 16 April 69 following defeat at the Battle of Bedriacum.

April 9, 2017
Poster art designer and painter Leonetto Cappiello was born 9 April 1875 in Livorno.

April 6, 2017
Raphael died in Rome on 6 April 1520, likely his thirty-seventh birthday (unless, in fact, he was born on 28 March).

April 2, 2017
Charlemagne was born 2 April 742 in what was then the Frankish Kingdom and died there in January 814.

March 26, 2017
Eastern Roman Emperor Maurice proclaimed his son, Theodosius, co-emperor on 26 March 590.

March 12, 2017
Painter, collagist, and designer Alberto Burri was born 12 March 1915 in Città di Castello, Umbria.