sicily

November 25, 2019
The Villa Romana del Casale and Its Mosaics

February 3, 2019
The architect, Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, who played a central role in rebuilding Catania, Sicily after the devastating 1693 earthquake, was born on February 3, 1702 in Palermo.

March 12, 2018
Dalmatian sculptor Francesco Laurana was dead by 12 March 1502 in the city of Marseille, France.

March 10, 2018
Italian sculptor Giacomo Serpotta was born in Palermo on 10 March 1652 to a prominent family of sculptors and stucco workers.

July 27, 2017
Lombard artist Cesare da Sesto died on 27 July 1523 in Milan.

July 24, 2016
Rainulfo II of Alife became the “rebel king” of the southern Italian peninsula following a victory on 24 July 1132 at the Battle of Nocera during which the Norman ruler, Roger II, was briefly deposed.

January 31, 2016
Ernesto Basile was born on 31 January 1857 in Palermo, where he would become chair of architecture at the city’s university.

January 17, 2016
Architect Guarino Guarini was born on 17 January 1625 in Modena.

December 9, 2015
Kristen Streahle Presented “TABIMUROLLI MUIDEM REP: Pseudo-Kufic, Retrograde Latin, and the Crusades Remembered on the Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri Ceiling”

November 15, 2015
Danielle Carrabino , Associate Research Curator in European Art at the Harvard Art Museums, was the recipient of a 2014 IAS Research & Publication Grant , which she used to purchase image rights for her book, Caravaggio and the Caravaggesque in Sicily , currently in progress.