Interviews Contemporary art Handicrafts Paleontology Prehistory
Born and raised in Carrara, Mariaelena Mariotti—known by her artist name, Mother of the Dinosaurs—is enjoying increasing success with her realistic dinosaurs, incredible sculptures that take shape in her studio in the Apuan Alps and are…
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The excavation campaigns conducted in October 2026 at the site of Balak Dere, in the municipality of Ivaylovgrad, Bulgaria, have deepened our understanding of a late antique pagan sanctuary, possibly one of the last traditional places of…
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Rai Cultura is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Lucca Comics & Games with *60 Times Lucca: The Adventurous History of Lucca Comics & Games*, a television special that traces the history of the event, considered the world’s…
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Interviews Assisi Saint Francis Tourism Travel
Friar Francesco Piloni, a Friar Minor, is the guardian of the Sanctuary of San Damiano in Assisi and president of the St. Francis Foundation. His experience at Franciscan sites brings him face-to-face daily with an increasingly pressing…
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A painting in a private collection in Bologna adds a new piece to the catalog of works by Jacopo Carucci, known as Pontormo (Empoli, 1494 – Florence, 1557). It is a *Vir Dolorum* ( the panel is an oil on poplar wood, and the…
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The University of Salento’s 18th excavation campaign inthe ancient Roman city of Aquinum, located within the territory of the present-day municipalities of Castrocielo and Aquino (in the province of Frosinone), has unearthed two…
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News Focus BIAF 2026 Florence International Antiques Biennale
The 34th edition of the International Antiques Biennial (BIAF)—Italy’s oldest and most prestigious exhibition and market dedicated to antique art—concluded yesterday in the halls of the historic Palazzo Corsini in Florence. This…
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For the artist Bruno Fantelli (Cles, 1996), painting does not seem to have come about as a sudden choice, but rather as the continuation of an inclination cultivated since childhood: drawing, building, and modifying whatever was in front…
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