The upper arm of the cross over the Jesus Christ Tower of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona was mounted yesterday, marking the completion of the tower's exterior structures. Work inside the structure will continue during 2027 and 2028. With thi...
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"Ecce Homo will have a residence and all of Italy as its domicile. And what can Antonello da Messina's residence be this year? In the year that celebrates the city as the Italian Capital of Culture, it can only be L'Aquila to host at the Spanish Fort...
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An extensive program of restorations is involving and will involve the monuments and buildings in Florence's Piazza del Duomo, including Giotto's Campanile, the Eugenian College, and the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. As the president of theOpera di San...
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The Olympic brazier for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games could remain in Milan even after the event is over. The hypothesis was put forward by Mayor Giuseppe Sala on the sidelines of the Your Next Milano event, dedicated to the impact of the Olymp...
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Spain's cultural heritage is being enriched thanks to a nobleman paying inheritance tax in works of art, an operation permitted by the Spanish tax authorities. It happens in the Canary Islands, where the family of Count de la Vega Grande de Guadalupe...
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On the night of Feb. 17-18, a break-in occurred at the Basilica of the Blessed Virgin of St. Luke in Bologna. According to information from theArchdiocese, unknown persons forced the night closure of the Holy Image and broke the protective glass of t...
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Registration is now open for the third edition of d:cult, the Training Course in Scientific Dissemination of Cultural Heritage promoted by the IANUA School of the University of Genoa. The course, aimed at young graduates under 35 from all over Italy,...
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Following the vast fire that broke out at dawn in Naples' Chiaia district, which enveloped the Sannazaro Theater causing the dome to collapse and a dense column of smoke, the first images of the building's interior are now emerging. The blaze, which ...
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Serious damage in Rome to theElephantine that supports theMinerva obelisk, located in the center of Piazza della Minerva, near the Pantheon. The pachyderm's left tusk was in fact found broken at the foot of the monument. The episode dates back to Mon...
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Henrike Naumann, the artist who, together with Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu, is representing Germany at the Venice Art Biennale 2026, curated by Kathleen Reinhardt, passed away at just 41 years old following a cancer diagnosis that came too late.
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The television theme song that accompanies daily live broadcasts of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games has ended up at the center of a controversy involving the relationship between philological fidelity of the artwork and the need for globa...
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Florence celebrates Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, theElectress Palatina, with a day of initiatives sponsored by the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence and the Bargello Museums. The event is set for Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the Medici Chapel Museum, whe...
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Discovery at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, where a recent investigation has unearthed a volume of extraordinary interest to the history of science: a printed copy of Claudius Ptolemy'sAlmagest, published in Basel in 1551, containing ...
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A serious fire broke out at dawn today in the Chiaia neighborhood of Naples, involving the building housing the Sannazaro Theater on Via Chiaia. The particularly high flames were visible even from a great distance for several hours, while a dense col...
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Vittorio Sgarbi was acquitted by the Court of Reggio Emilia, in abbreviated form, of thecharge of money laundering related to the affair of Rutilio Manetti 's painting The Capture of St. Peter, owned by the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation, which was exhi...
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TheLovers' Arch in Torre Sant'Andrea, in the territory of Melendugno, in the province of Lecce, no longer exists. The imposing natural arch overlooking the lower Adriatic Sea, one of the most photographed views of the Salento coast, collapsed on the ...
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