monastery

October 1, 2017
St. Benedict’s Basilica at Montecassino was dedicated on October 1, 1071.

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.

March 4, 2015
Italian portrait painter Giuseppe Ghislandi, known as Fra Vittore Galgario, was baptized on 4 March 1655 in Bergamo.

June 25, 2014
On this day in 1504, Sodoma completed his fresco project for the refectory (monastic dining room) of Santa Anna in Camprena, an Olivetan convent near the Tuscan town of Pienza.