library remains a rich archival repository. Three successive maestri di cappella marked the great age of music at San Petronio: Maurizio Cazzati (1657–71)...

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo di lodoˈviːko ˌbwɔnarˈrɔːti siˈmoːni]; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously...

demolition of the old cathedral. It kept the relics of Saint Valentine. The Cappella Sistina (Sistine Chapel), adjacent to the cathedral and built 1480–1483...

Charles III (Italian: Carlo III di Borbone, Duca di Parma e Piacenza; 14 January 1823 – 27 March 1854) was the duke of Parma from 1849 to 1854. He was...

(1568–1570) Luigi Cornaro (1570–1584) Filippo Guastavillani (1584–1587) Enrico Caetani (1587–1599) Pietro Aldobrandini (1599–1621) Ludovico Ludovisi (1621–1623)...

Siena Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and...

VII (1278). The following year, the town was declared a possession of the people of Milan. In 1312, Monza adhered to the Ghibelline faction. Enrico Aliprandi...

statues, paintings, polychrome marble, and gold leaf. The Cappella della Beata Vergine di Lourdes (Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes) was completed in 1907...

Santissima Annunziata where Montorsoli had worked on the decorations of the Cappella dei Pittori, in which the order had given permission for artists to be...

Giuseppe de Rossi (born mid 17th-century - died c. 1719-1720), maestro di cappella at the Basilica della Santa Casa from 1701 through 1711. Due to Our Lady...