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May 5, 2019
A relief sculpture from San Martino in Alzano Lombardo depicts the sculptor and architect, Giovan Battista Caniana, in the city where he died on May 5, 1754.

March 6, 2019
Architect Guarino Guarini died on 6 March 1683 in Milan at age 59.

December 9, 2018
Benedetto Innocente Alfieri died in Turin on December 9th, 1767.

August 19, 2018
Architect Bernardo Vittone was born on August 19 th , 1702 in Turin.

July 16, 2017
Fabio Viale’s Tattooed Sculptures Sculptor Fabio Viale , whose works from earlier this decade coaxed mundane objects such as tires and grocery sacks from Carrara marble, has more recently turned his attention to embellishing his works with colorful “body modifications.” Viale’s project over the past five years involves re-creating actual-size replicas of famous works known from antiquity, most Roman copies of Greek original works, such as the Venus de Milo and the Aphrodite Knidos, and decorating them with colorful “tattoos.” The tattoos take their inspiration from traditional designs from Japan as well as variations upon designs from the international criminal underworld.

June 23, 2017
Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967, quoted in Richard Flood and Frances Morris (eds.

April 3, 2017
Happy birthday Giuseppe Penone!

March 7, 2017
Sculptor Gaetano Orsolini was born 7 March 1884 in Montegiorgio, a town equidistant from Ancona and Ascoli Piceno.

November 5, 2016
Arte Povera and Conceptual Art Italian artist Giulio Paolini was born on 5 November 1940 in Genoa.

September 21, 2016
Abstract sculptor Umberto Mastroianni was born 21 September 1910 in the province of Frosinone.