Rome

May 27, 2018
Barbarian Burial Sheds Light on Legion’s Legends Roman writers and artists often made the “wild and savage” “barbarians” of Germania the subject of their historical reconstructions and commemorative stonework.

May 5, 2018
Sculptor Pietro Bernini was born on 5 May 1562 in Sesto Fiorentino.

May 4, 2018
Architect Carlo Rainaldi was born in Rome on 4 May 1611.

May 3, 2018
Catch if You Can: Canaletto, 1697-1768

May 2, 2018
Sculptor Camillo Pacetti was born on 2 May 1758 in Rome.

April 12, 2018
Architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger was born 12 April 1484 in Florence.

April 8, 2018
Caracalla (born Marcus Aurelius Antoninus in 188), was assassinated on 8 April 217, after nearly 20 years as one of the most reviled Roman emperors.

April 7, 2018
Gino Severini was born on 7 April 1883 in Cortona.

April 6, 2018
Bolognese painter Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino, died on 6 April 1641, the same day as his one of his greatest heroes, Raphael , who also died on this day almost a century earlier.

April 1, 2018
Bartolomeo Pinelli died on 1 April 1835.