News Focus Antonello da Messina Sicily Theft
The two Renoirs stolen on September 8 from the museum dedicated to the artist in Cagnes-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera, were recovered on October 9—almost exactly one month after the theft. DNA evidence proved decisive. However…
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News Focus Antonello da Messina Sicily Theft
“It’s impossible. The mounting system of the panels of the San Gregorio Polyptych makes it impossible to remove them in the two or three minutes during which, according to press reports, the theft took place.” The…
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Opinions Antonello da Messina Messina Sicily Theft
There is no “Messina case”; it is not “a Southern issue,” as stated by Claudio Strinati, president of the Higher Council for Cultural and Environmental Heritage. But it is indeed a Sicilian issue. The security…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Five hundred Giorgio Vasari Mannerism Renaissance Rome
A chamber exhibition. It comes to be called that, borrowing the lexicon of chamber music: that designed for small ensembles and intimate spaces, more living rooms than concert halls. This is the hallmark of the exhibition Vasari and Rome…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Archaeology
"Infesta mihi credite signa ab Syracusis illata sunt hunc urbi" (Livy, XXXIV 4, 4). With these words, in 195 B.C., Cato, a spokesman for the most ardent conservatism, railed against the vast amount of cultural artifacts the Romans moved…
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Opinions Cultural heritage Sicily
In a measure signed by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, the Central Institute for Cultural Heritage Risk Management (ICRI), incardinated into the Department of Protection (DIT), was created. The garrison serves to give an ordinary…
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Exhibition reviews Archaeology art and fashion Calabria
"Calabria, where I was born, for me is perfume, dazzling light, shadows." There was no more congenial place than Reggio Calabria and the National Archaeological Museum (MArRC) to celebrate with an exhibition in his hometown the creative…
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Reading the statements of the city's Performances and Major Events Councilor Massimo Finocchiaro in the "Gazzetta del Sud," we are left wondering whether Messina is still in Italy. Because otherwise we cannot explain how it is possible for…
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