Rome

September 5, 2018
Italo-Lithuanian sculptor Antonietta Raphaël died on 5 September 1975 in Rome at age 75.

July 14, 2018
Baroque sculptor Camillo Rusconi was born on 14 July 1658 and was an accomplished sculptor in his time.

June 28, 2018
Architect and engineer Domenico Fontana died 28 June 1607 in Naples.

June 28, 2018
Gioacchino Asserto, an early baroque painter from Genoa, died on 28 June 1649.

June 24, 2018
The 24th day of June is an important one in Roman imperial history.

June 21, 2018
Sebastiano del Piombo died on 21 June 1547 in Rome.

June 17, 2018
The Pollaiuolo Brothers and the Capitoline Wolf.

June 10, 2018
Dogs in Roman Life and Art Though she was educated at Cambridge and because a full professor at Oxford University, archaeologist and art historian Joceyln Toynbee published under the initials J.M.C.

May 30, 2018
Discovered Digit Determined to be Part of Constantine’s Colossal Bronze Hand The Art Newspaper has reported that a bronze appendage once believed to be a toe has recently been identified as one of the fingers missing from the colossal (albeit fragmentary) bronze bits of Emperor Constantine in Rome’s Capitoline Museum.

May 29, 2018
On 29 May 1606, the great Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio killed Ranuccio Tommasoni in Rome.