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April 27, 2019
Domenico Zampieri (1581–1641), although nicknamed Domenichino for his short stature, is remembered as a towering personality and leading proponent of Baroque classicism in Bologna and Rome.

November 18, 2018
Luca Cambiaso was born in Genoa on 18 November 1527.

February 18, 2018
As Perseus and Andromeda Rise, Medusa is the Star For stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere, the constellations of Perseus and Andromeda reach ascendance on 18 February, and are easy to see high overhead during the spring.

January 31, 2018
Ettore Sottsass died 31 January 2007.

January 29, 2018
Italian painter and draughtsman Giuliano Bugiardini was born in Florence on 29 January 1475.

September 17, 2017
The Cleveland Apollo: Roman Copy or Greek Original?

September 10, 2017
Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was born 10 September 1890 in Rome.

July 30, 2017
Born on 14 September 1917, Ettore Sottsass moved from Innsbruck to Turin with his family at the age of 11 and began studying architecture at the Politecnico, Turin, in 1939.

June 4, 2017
Claudia de’ Medici was born 4 June 1604 in Florence.

April 16, 2016
Almost six years after it fell to the floor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Andrea della Robbia’s Saint Michael the Archangel is back on view, temporarily installed at a low height to allow visitors to admire its technical mastery.