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Recovered and returned by TPC Carabinieri a rare 17th century pharmaceutical text that had been stolen

Universale Theatro Farmaceutico, a rare text from 1682 written by Venetian pharmacist Antonio De Sgobbis, has been recovered by the Carabinieri Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale in Monza. This precious volume had been stolen in 1985 from the Nobile ...
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Royal Palace of Caserta, restoration finished at the Royal Apartments

At the Royal Palace of Caserta , the restoration of the Royal Apartments has been completed, an intervention of considerable importance, involving some of the most significant rooms of the palace. The work, financed with more than 920 thousand euros ...
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Austria, homophobic vandalism against Anne Imhof exhibition

Homophobic vandalism in Austria against the posters of the exhibition of Anne Imhof, one of Germany's leading contemporary artists, being held at the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Indeed, posters in the city advertising the exhibition, entitled Wish you were g...
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Rome, donated to the state the apartment where Pasolini began writing Ragazzi di vita. It will open to the public

In Rome, at the Ministry of Culture, the deed was stipulated by which film and television producer Pietro Valsecchi donated to the state the apartment located at Via Giovanni Tagliere No. 3, where Pier Paolo Pasolini lived with his mother between 195...
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2024 Olympics: for the first time in history, the Opening Ceremony will be along the Seine and not in a stadium

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics is really close to being held on Friday, July 26: for the first time in the history of the Summer Olympics, the Ceremony will take place not in a stadium, but along the Seine. In fact, the athletes' pa...
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Visiting museums reduces anxiety and helps mental health. A study in Verona gives the first confirmations

The claim that visiting museums can strengthen mental health and reduce anxiety and depression is increasingly shared, but how consistent is this claim from a scientific point of view? The MINERVA project, a collaboration between Palazzo Maffei Casa ...
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Gabiano Castle in Monferrato opens to the public for the first time

Gabiano Castle, positioned in the hills of Monferrato overlooking the Po Valley, has belonged to the Durazzo Family, Marquises of Gabiano, for four centuries. To celebrate the 400 years that bind the family to the castle, its descendants have decided...
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Rome, after restoration, House of Livia on Palatine returns to view

As of Monday, July 22, 2024, the House of Livia on the Palatine reopened to the public after major restoration work. This historic first-century B.C.E. private domus, unearthed by nineteenth-century excavations, is attributed to Livia thanks to the d...
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In Padua, they want to remove Annigoni's frescoes hoping to find Giotto

Remove frescoes by Pietro Annigoni in order to bring to light older paintings executed by one of the giants of art history: Giotto. This is what is planned to be done in Padua, inside the Basilica of St. Anthony, with the aim of rediscovering the pai...
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Rocchetta Mattei, the Arab-Moorish wing, the most authentic portion of the entire complex, will be restored

Presented the project to restore and secure the Arab-Moorish part of Rocchetta Mattei, which is the most authentic portion of the entire complex. This section was the first to be built and represents the true essence of the Rocchetta. The project aim...
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France, court sentences artist who painted an erotic Tintin

In France, an artist, Xavier Marabout, who for years has been revising the stories of Tintin, a very popular French comic book character created by Hergé, setting them in the paintings of Edward Hopper to create singular mashups with an erotic...
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Parthenon Marbles, British's new director: 'we hope to do something positive'

First interview for the new director of the British Museum in London, Nicholas Cullinan, who took office at the end of March, succeeding Hartwig Fischer, the former director who resigned after the sensational affair of thefts at the museum. To expoun...
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Florence, tourist mimics sexual intercourse with the Fountain of Bacchus

Hot scenes in Florence between a tourist and the Fountain of Bacchus, the monument where Giambologna 's reproduction of Bacchus , now kept at the Bargello Museum, is placed. So much has come to witness via two smartphone shots that capture a girl in ...
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London, steals an ancient coin at the British Museum: it's performance art

He steals anancient coin from 1645, kept at the British Museum in London, and replaces it with a reproduction. However, this is not yet another act of an antiquities thief, or a continuation of the well-known affair of thefts at the London museum: th...
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State Property Office publishes notice to regenerate several historic buildings. Here are which ones are

A 1380 tower on the promontory of Isola Capo Rizzuto in Calabria, a palace near the Caravaggio Sanctuary near Bergamo, a lighthouse on the island of Levanzo in Sicily, and period villas in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto, former firing ranges or old...
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Farewell to Bill Viola, the great pioneer of video art

The great U.S. artist Bill Viola has passed away at the age of 73 from complications due to Alzheimer's disease from which he suffered. Confirmation of the news comes from his studio's official Instagram account: "It is with great sadness," the post ...
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