Rome

March 22, 2017
Architect Emanuele Rodriguez dos Santos died 22 March 1764 in Rome.

March 12, 2017
Painter, collagist, and designer Alberto Burri was born 12 March 1915 in Città di Castello, Umbria.

March 7, 2017
Sculptor Gaetano Orsolini was born 7 March 1884 in Montegiorgio, a town equidistant from Ancona and Ascoli Piceno.

March 5, 2017
Poet, translator, painter, novelist, actor, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was born 5 March 1922 in Bologna.

March 4, 2017
The dawn of a draughtsman: sculptor, painter, and engraver Giuseppe Cades was born on 4 March 1750 in Rome.

February 19, 2017
On 19 February 356 Emperor Constantius II issued a decree closing all the pagan temples in the Roman Empire.

February 17, 2017
Italian painter and draughtsman Giuliano Bugiardini died on 17 February 1554.

February 12, 2017
Mario Mafai, who with his wife Antonietta Raphaël was one of the central figures of a group of artists called the Scuola di Via Cavour, was born 12 February 1902 in Rome, where he lived and worked for much of his life until his death there in 1965.

February 12, 2017
The combined rites practiced by the cult of the Hirpi Sorani (“wolves of Soranus”) in the pagan peninsular countryside and those to honor Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome who were nursed by a wolf, partly explain the name of the Lupercalia, a festival celebrated each February.

February 5, 2017
The feast day of St. Agatha (231-251) is celebrated on 5 February.