Palermo

August 27, 2015
Sicilian painter Pietro Novelli died on 27 August 1647 in Palermo.

January 29, 2014
Among the works that will be on view at the Guggenheim’s Italian Futurism retrospective are murals by Benedetta (d. 1977, née Cappa, wife of fellow futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (d. 1944).

August 26, 2013
Chair of architecture at the University of Palermo, Ernesto Basile died on this day in 1932.

July 16, 2013
On this day in 1557 Vincenzo degli Azani died in Palermo, Sicily, his birthplace.