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March 27, 2018
A shift in ecclesiastic architectural style began to emerge in Italy in the twelfth century.

February 6, 2018
St. Dorothy died on February 6, 311 C.E.

January 16, 2018
There is less than a month to visit the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

November 21, 2017
Although The Presentation of the Virgin , which is celebrated on November 21st, was not a common narrative scene in medieval art, monumental programs were dedicated to other major moments in the Virgin’s life.

October 31, 2017
Visit the Princeton University Art Museum to experience a rich collection of Italian art in the United States.

August 18, 2017
The painter and architect Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena was born in Bologna on 18 August 1657.

August 8, 2017
The Pax Romana, conceived of by the Emperor Augustus, who was married to Livia Drusilla , as the Roman Empire’s political and social rebirth, was promoted by notions of prosperity, peace, and familial stability.

July 22, 2017
Leone Leoni died on July 22, 1590, in Milan.

January 17, 2016
17 January is the feast day of St. Anthony Abbot, who is revered as the founder of Christian monasticism in the east.

March 7, 2015
Roman emperor Antoninus Pius died on 7 March 161 CE in Lorium, an ancient Etruscan village on the Via Aurelia, less than twelve miles west of Rome.