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What are Florence's wine pits, a heritage to be rediscovered

Walking through the historic center of Florence, it is easy to come across buildings that on the facade, at basin height, present small doors framed by stone as if it were the front door, complete with latch, in miniature. We are not in the presence ...
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What is the G7 of Culture

The G7 of Culture, also known as the "G7 of Culture Ministers," is a summit that brings together representatives of G7 member countries with the aim of discussing issues related to culture, cultural heritage protection, and international cultural po...
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Parma exults by opening its doors wide again to Correggio

Next September 8, the city of Parma will inaugurate an exceptional and very singular exhibition: an unforgettable Fifth Centenary of Correggio's creative cycle. Indeed, the "secularia quinta" of the Painter's extraordinary presence on the Italian art...
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Export of cultural property: a comparative analysis of the laws of eight countries

Theexport of cultural property is one of the most sensitive and controversial issues in the field, because it involves not only thelegal and, of course, the politicalsphere , but is also an issue that is closely related to the protection of a nation'...
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Zuchtriegel surprisingly reopens debate on Pompeii's eruption! August or October?

In a post on his socials on August 24, Pompeii Archaeological Park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel recalled theeruption of Vesuvius on August 24, 79 A .D ."On August 24, 79 A.D., the eruption of Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum," Zuchtriegel r...
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Constraint or free movement? How the state deals with artworks on the market

Retain a work of art by placing a cultural interest restriction or let the work circulate on the free market? This is one of the most intricate questions facing a state in the cultural heritage sector today, and the decisions often spark controversy,...
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This is how the Tower of Pisa has been perceived and represented over the centuries

The exhibition that opened in Pisa, at the Palazzo dell'Opera del Duomo, last June 15, represents in some respects a methodological bet, or if we want, a tautology. If in fact there is a building that does not wait to be shown, because it is even exh...
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Notre Dame, where are we with the construction site: opening now in sight

Those who went to Paris to attend or participate in the Olympics will surely take the opportunity to visit one of the city's many museums or monuments. But one of the most iconic Parisian destinations is still closed to the public after the terrible ...
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Between science and legend, Galileo's experiment from the Tower of Pisa

The bell tower of the Primatial Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Pisa, universally known as the Leaning Tower, is the symbol of the city and of Italy in general, its fame is boundless, and it is also said to have been the celebrated stage and labo...
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The concert of concerts, Pink Floyd's 35th anniversary in Venice

Indispensable, unique, avant-garde. We all know this, Pink Floyd, a British group founded in the 1960s, has been around since before time and even before music itself. Yet, those tunes and their presence still resonate too foreign, far too far ahead ...
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When Pisa ruled the seas. The history of the Pisan Arsenals.

For those who do not find themselves delving into the subject, it may still be mysterious or at any rate bizarre that the city of Pisa, now inland in Tuscany, about 10 km from the coast, had a glorious past on the sea, as it is known, as a Maritime R...
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Ten years ago, state museums became autonomous. What is autonomy and what has it entailed

A "revolution": this was the term that, ten years ago, in July 2014, the then Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini used to present the reform of the ministry, which would come into force on December 10 of the same year, with the Decree of...
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Banking foundations in Tuscany: what they do for art

Tuscany, with its rich and deep-rooted artistic traditions, has always attracted to its lands artists, scholars and art lovers from all over the world, who have always found fertile ground for their ideas here, given also the strong tradition of patr...
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Why there is so much discussion about VAT on artwork, and how it works (explained well)

Ten days ago, on June 11, Gruppo Apollo, an association of antiquarians, modern and contemporary art galleries, collectors, art logistics companies and auction houses from all over Italy, issued a statement calling on the Italian government to lower ...
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Guercino in Turin: an itinerary among the works

In the strutting, superb Turin, in the sunny splendor of the Savoy square next to the Royal Palace, within the cozy halls of Palazzo Chiablese, stands a luminous and splendid exhibition, perhaps unexpected but for that reason surprising and magnifice...
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The rediscovered documentary: the film on Henri Cartier Bresson by Giorgio Bocca

Undisputed master of modern photography, portraitist, narrator of the entire history of the twentieth century, called "the eye of the century," theorist of the decisive instant, founder of the world's most famous photo agency, Magnum: definitions are...
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