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Showing posts with label Giovanni Battista Vaccarini. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Giovanni Battista Vaccarini. Show all posts

29 February 2020

Pietro Ottoboni - patron of music and art

Venetian cardinal spent fortune on composers and painters Francesco Trevisiani's portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, painted in a...

11 January 2019

The 1693 Sicily earthquake

Devastation that led to architectural rebirth An engraving dated at 1696 is thought to depict ruined buildings in Catania after the 16...

3 February 2018

Giovanni Battista Vaccarini - architect

Sicilian Baroque designs shaped the look of Catania Vaccarini's Fontana dell'Elefante has become the symbol of Catania Giova...

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