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Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Peruggia wanted to bring the painting back for display in Italy "after it was stolen by Napoleon". After keeping the painting hidden in a trunk in his apartment for two years Peruggia returned to Italy with it. He kept it in his apartment in Firenze but grew impatient and was finally caught when he contacted Alfredo Geri, the owner of an art gallery in Firenze, Italy.
(21 August 1911)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

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Fondamenta dei Mori, Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

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Sunday 29th of September 1518 (+) — Painter Tintoretto is born.
Tuesday 31st of May 1594 (-) — Painter Tintoretto dies of fever.
Tintoretto was seized with severe stomach pains that prevented him from sleeping and eating for almost a fortnight.