Naples

May 17, 2015
The 2015 IAS/Kress Lecture will be sponsored by the Università degli Studi di Napoli—Federico II on 20 May 2015 at 4 p.m.

March 23, 2015
Happy Birthday Francesco Clemente !

February 24, 2015
Mattia Preti was born on 24 February 1613 in Taverna, Calabria.

February 8, 2015
Painter Corrado Giaquinto was born on 8 February 1703 in Molfetta near Bari.

February 5, 2015
On 5 February 62 CE, the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were hit by a strong earthquake with a magnitude approximated between 5 and 6 on the modern Richter scale.

December 7, 2014
Happy Birthday Bernini!

September 19, 2014
Today, September 19, is the feast day of St. Januarius , better known as San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples believed to protect the city from volcanic eruptions.

August 3, 2014
Archaeologists discovered the Seated Mercury on this day in 1758 in the peristyle of the Villa of Papyri at Herculaneum .

July 26, 2014
On this day in 1836, Tuscan artist Adriano Cecioni was born in Fontebuona in Vaglia just north of Florence.

July 8, 2014
Artemesia Gentileschi was born on this day in 1593 in Rome.