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August 27, 2016
Rococo sculptor and painter Agostino Cornacchini was born  27 August 1686 in in Pescia.

February 10, 2016
Luigi Colombo, who went by the Futurist pseudonym Fillia (his mother’s maiden name), died of tuberculosis on 10 February 1936 at only 31 years of age.

January 31, 2016
Sicilian architect Filippo Juvarra died on 31 January 1736 in Madrid.

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

January 14, 2016
The exhibition “Giorgio Griffa: The 1970s” – featuring the subtle paintings of the contemporary Italian artist – opened last week at the Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York.

December 27, 2015
Giovanni Battista Borra was Born on 27 December 1713 in the Piedmont Town of Dogliani.

December 20, 2015
Futurist artist Nikolay Diulgheroff was Born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria on 20 December 1901.

September 9, 2015
Was this unknown man Italy’s greatest collector?

September 8, 2015
Sculptor Davide Calandra died 8 September in 1915 in Turin, his hometown.

August 21, 2015
Evangelina Alciati – the first female painter to be admitted as a student to the Accademia Albertina in Turin – was born on this day in 1883.