lombardy

October 31, 2019
Just In Time For Halloween… Cortenova’s “House of Witches.”

January 28, 2018
Charlemagne died on 28 January 814.

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

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.

June 18, 2016
Opening Today: “Floating Piers” by Christo at Lake Iseo For those who live in/near Lombardy: Christo’s installation, entitled “The Floating Piers,” opens this coming Saturday, 18 June, on Lake Iseo, east of the Italian city of Bergamo.

June 15, 2016
Opening Soon: “Floating Piers” by Christo at Lake Iseo For those who live in/near Lombardy: Christo’s installation, entitled “The Floating Piers,” opens this coming Saturday, 18 June, on Lake Iseo, east of the Italian city of Bergamo.

December 22, 2015
Alessandro Bonvicino, better known as “Il Moretto da Brescia,” died on 22 December 1554.

October 2, 2015
Anonymous: Who painted the frescoes in the Church of Santa Maria foris portas in Castelseprio?

August 28, 2015
Lombard architect and sculptor Giovanni Antonio Amadeo died on 28 August 1522 in Milan.

September 3, 2013
The J. Paul Getty Museum launches its new exhibition Miracles and Martyrs: Saints in the Middle Ages today through 2 March 2014.