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Hidden camera in women's restrooms: Centre Pompidou denounces

TheCentre Pompidou announced Wednesday, Feb. 11, that it had filed a complaint after the discovery in mid-January of an image-taking device installed in the women's restrooms inside its administrative premises. As reported by the Le Figaro news outle...
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Antonello da Messina: Congressman Sebastiano Fabio Venezia calls for the return of Ecce Homo to Sicily

In the past few hours, regional deputy Sebastiano Fabio Venezia submitted aparliamentary interpellation addressed to the regional government asking for action to facilitate the assignment of Antonello da Messina'sEcce Homo to the Regional Museums of...
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Ferrara, after 80 years the Apparition of St. Bruno by Giuseppe Avanzi returns to San Cristoforo

After more than eighty years, the church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa in Ferrara is once again home to TheApparition of Saint Bruno to Roger, Count of Sicily before the Battle of Capua, a monumental painting by Giuseppe Avanzi (1646-1718) measuring...
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Agrigento capital of culture 2025, a disaster: the case reaches Parliament

With the closing ceremony held last Saturday, January 10, the curtain finally came down on Agrigento Italian Capital of Culture for the year 2025. The ceremony for the handover of the title to the city of L'Aquila provided an opportunity for an initi...
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State purchased Antonello da Messina's Ecce Homo for $14.9 million

Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli announced that, through the General Directorate of Museums, the state has acquired from Sotheby's, a well-known international auction house active in the art market, Antonello da Messina's tempera painting on pane...
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Garisenda, Ministry warns Bologna municipality: monitoring data missing

The Ministry of Culture is preparing to send a formal warning to the City of Bologna over the management of the Garisenda Tower. At the center of the institutional clash is the failure to transmit monitoring data and technical documentation regarding...
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Harmony lights up the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Photos from the Opening Ceremony.

Harmony. This is the key word that guided the creative concept of the Opening Ceremony of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, an evening that chose to tell the story of Italy through the ability to bring together different and seemingly dist...
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Angel-Meloni, Vicariate of Rome announces restoration of original features of angel's face

The controversial (and also quite grotesque) affair of theangel with the face of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Chapel of the Crucifix in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome continues to cause talk. After days of discussion, controver...
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Theft at the Louvre: Empress Eugenie's crown will be restored. Photos of the current condition

Having escaped theft at the Louvre on Oct. 19, 2025, Empress Eugénie's crown had been found at the foot of the Apollo Gallery. Initially held by the judicial police for investigative purposes, the crown had been handed over to the Department of Decor...
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Niscemi: ICOM Italy, AIB and ANAI make urgent appeal to Sicilian Region for historic library at risk of collapse

ICOM Italy, theItalian Library Association (AIB) and theItalian National Archival Association (ANAI) with their respective Sicilian sections express their closeness and solidarity to the citizens of Niscemi at a critical time for social and economic ...
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The Neptune of Lyon arrives in Rome: at the Barracco Museum one of the great bronzes from Roman Gaul

From Feb. 6 to June 7, 2026, the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture will host for the first time in Rome the statue of Neptune fromancient Lugdunum, present-day Lyon. The work comes to the capital thanks to a loan from the Lugdunum-Mus&eac...
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Farewell to Lorenza Trucchi, historic Italian art critic

Passed away in Rome on Feb. 4, 2026, at the age of 104, Lorenza Trucchi, a historic Italian art critic and a central figure in the cultural landscape of the 20th century. Born in Munich in 1922 and moved to Rome in 1934, Trucchi completed her classic...
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Angel-Meloni deleted. Restorer admits: it was the premier's face

The face of the angel Meloni is no longer visible in the fresco in the Chapel of the Crucifix in the Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome. The removal took place in the evening of yesterday, February 3, and was carried out by restorer Bruno Valentin...
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Angelo-Meloni, no removal for now: no action yet

On the case of theangel with a face resembling that of Giorgia Meloni, which appeared in the Chapel of the Crucifix in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, the Diocese of Rome clarifies that there are no imminent steps taken by the Vatican for the ...
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Rome, maintenance work completed at the Casino Nobile of Villa Torlonia

Nearly two decades after it was first opened to the public in 2006, the Casino Nobile of Villa Torlonia in Rome is being returned to the city in its 19th-century appearance as a noble villa. In fact, maintenance work, begun in October 2025 and carrie...
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Angelo-Meloni, Superintendence: 'We will evaluate after verification on documentation'

On the case of theangel (actually a winged victory) with a face similar to Giorgia Meloni's, which appeared after recent works in the Chapel of the Crucifix in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome's Special Superintendence maintains a position...
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