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Barbara Hepworth, Monolith-Empyrean, 1953, Kenwood House, London Harriet Hosmer, The Sleeping Faun (c. 1870), Cleveland Museum of Art Gabriela von Habsburg (born 1956), Europe Emmeline Halse (1853–1930), United Kingdom
The first Illinois woman suffrage convention was held in Chicago; The Chicago Club is established. Washington Square Park being developed. [6] 1870 St. Ignatius College founded, later Loyola University; Population: 298,977. [4] 1871: October 8 – 10, the Great Chicago Fire. [6] [11] 1872 Montgomery Ward in business.
Virginio Ferrari is an Italian sculptor, born in Verona and based in Chicago from the middle of the 1960s. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 150 group shows. Ferrari Studios, a site for both Virginio and his son Marco, is at 412 S. Wells, 3rd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60607.
Jerome Cosentino, an ethnic Italian from Chicago, was elected Illinois State Treasurer, becoming the first to hold a statewide office in Illinois. [3] Italian Chicago native Ralph C. Capparelli was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives and served for 33 years (13th and 16th District) from 1971 to 2004.
Zwanger, Meryl, Women and Art in the Renaissance, in: Sister, Columbia University 1995/6. Judith Brown. Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Women And Men In History). 1998; Letizia Panizza, Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Oxford, 2000. ISBN 1-900755-09-2. Mary Rogers, Paola Tinagli. Women in Italy, 1350—1650 ...
Arthur B. Davies, Elysian Fields, undated, oil on canvas, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D. C.) The School of the Art Institute of Chicago was founded in 1879, from the remains of an earlier school founded in 1866 (thus the school predates the museum of the same name). [6]
The Balbo Monument consists of a column that is approximately 2,000 years old dating from between 117 and 38 BC and a contemporary stone base. It was taken from an ancient port town outside of Rome by Benito Mussolini and given to the city of Chicago in 1933 to honor the trans-Atlantic flight led by Italo Balbo to the Century of Progress Worlds Fair.
Floria Sigismondi (born 1965), Italian-Canadian photographer; Luisa Silei (1825–1898), landscape painter; Roberta Silva (born 1971), Trinidad and Tobago-born contemporary artist; Nerina Simi (1890–1987), painter, art teacher; Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665), Baroque painter; Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783), painter; Maria Spanò ...