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October 23, 2015
Painter and illuminator Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis is mentioned for the last time in a document of 23 October 1508, suggesting he died shortly after this date.

August 28, 2015
The Neoclassical sculptor Giovanni Maria (or Giammaria) Benzoni was born on 28 August 1809 in Songavazzo, near Bergamo.

August 21, 2015
Evangelina Alciati – the first female painter to be admitted as a student to the Accademia Albertina in Turin – was born on this day in 1883.

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

February 17, 2015
In October 2013, a painting kept in a Swiss bank vault was claimed by some to be a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

October 13, 2013
Antonio Canova died on this day in 1822 in Venice at age 65.

August 15, 2013
artgalleryofontario : Portrait of Cardinal Cosmo de Torres , unknown Zampieri Domenichino, Italian, 1581 – 1641 Oil on canvas Overall: 67.6 x 50.2 cm Anonymous Gift, 1994 © 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario

July 11, 2013
On this day in 1884, Italian modernist Amadeo Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy.