lombardy

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

January 28, 2018
Charlemagne died on 28 January 814.

June 10, 2017
Carlo Maciachini, one of the most important architects of Milanese eclecticism, died at Varese on 10 June 1899.

May 5, 2017
Painter, architect and illuminator Giovannino de’ Grassi is first documented on 5 May 1389, when the Duomo of Milan bought a paintbrush for him.

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.

October 7, 2016
On 7 October 1473, sculptors Cristoforo and Antonio Mantegazza were commissioned to work at the Chartreuse of Pavia on the facade of the monastic church.

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.