sicily

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.

July 18, 2016
Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio probably died on this day in 1610, aged 38.18 July is taken as the date of his death on the basis of what a poet friend of the artist later reported, but the dramatic circumstances under which the event occurred have been shrouded in mystery ever since.

February 1, 2016
Nearly 40 years after it disappeared from the sanctuary of San Francesco Bisconti in Morgantina, a Hellenistic period statue of the head of Hades is set to return to Sicily from Los Angeles.

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 , winner of a 2014 IAS Travel Grant for Emerging Scholars , used her award to travel to the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo , where she presented her paper, “TABIMUROLLI MUIDEM REP:“ Pseudo-Kufic, Retrograde Latin, and the Crusades Remembered on the Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri Ceiling.” The richly painted wooden ceiling that adorns the Great Hall of the palace is replete with scenes of epic narratives as well as decorative patterns and inscriptions.

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.

October 9, 2015
Architect and interior designer Antonio Curri was born on 9 October 1848 in Alberobello, a small southern towen famous for its trulli .

August 27, 2015
Sicilian painter Pietro Novelli died on 27 August 1647 in Palermo.

February 25, 2015
Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina died some time between 14 and 25 February in 1479 in the city that gave him his name.