sicily

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.

January 29, 2014
Among the works that will be on view at the Guggenheim’s Italian Futurism retrospective are murals by Benedetta (d. 1977, née Cappa, wife of fellow futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (d. 1944).

December 5, 2013
Sicilian officials have placed an export ban on twenty-three artworks deemed the island’s most important.

August 26, 2013
Chair of architecture at the University of Palermo, Ernesto Basile died on this day in 1932.

August 26, 2013
Patricia Cohen reports in the New York Times , and Helen Stoilas, in The Art Newspaper , that the formerly cancelled exhibition of Sicilian antiquities will proceed at the Cleveland Museum of Art Sunday, September 29, 2013 to Sunday, January 5, 2014.

July 27, 2013
Sicilian Exhibition at Cleveland Museum Is Off Again After Talks Fail

July 16, 2013
On this day in 1557 Vincenzo degli Azani died in Palermo, Sicily, his birthplace.