st peter’s basilica

January 6, 2019
Baldassare Peruzzi, architect of St. Peter’s and for the Republic of Siena, died in Rome on January 6, 1537.

November 18, 2018
November 18th is the Memorial of the Dedication of the basilicas of St. Peter and of St. Paul.

June 16, 2017
Sculptor Pietro Bracci was born June 16, 1700 in Rome.

July 29, 2016
On 29 July 1580, Francesco di Lorenzo Mochi was born in Montevarchi.

April 14, 2016
Neoclassical architect and designer Giuseppe Valadier was born on this day, April 14, in 1762.

August 19, 2015
The neoclassical sculptor Giuseppe De Fabris was born on this day in 1790.