To create the elevator shaft inside the Sacra di San Michele, it was necessary to cut into the rock. It was therefore not merely a matter of installing a new elevator system in a historic building: the construction of the new elevator—which now ensur...
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When, in 1832, the Polish prince Stanisław Poniatowski, grandson of the last king of Poland, published the second volume of the catalog raisonné of his vast collection of engraved stones in Florence, he included in the introductory pages a sta...
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The Barberini Mithraeum, one of the most fascinating sites in underground Rome, will reopen to the public on October 3, 2026. The sanctuary of the ancient cult of Mithras, hidden beneath the Palazzo Barberini, houses one of the most significant depic...
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Bergamo is hosting a new exhibition by Alex Da Corte (Camden, New Jersey, 1980), created for the Palazzo della Ragione, from November 13, 2026, to January 17, 2027. The exhibition, titled Sun and Shadow, is curated by Stefano Raimondi and produced by...
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The famous historical photograph of Mussolini hanging upside down in Piazzale Loreto, turned into a poster and displayed in the window of an art studio in downtown Volterra (Pisa), has become the center of a political controversy. The image shows the...
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The 45th fall edition of Mercanteinfiera, scheduled to take place at Fiere di Parma from October 3 to 11, 2026, will also be dedicated to objects as instruments of memory. The event, one of the leading international fairs dedicated to antiques, moder...
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Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Mondrian: these are names that mark the milestones of an epochal turning point in the history of European art. In less than eighty years, between the 19th and 20th centuries, painting shifted from the direct observation of...
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Since August, the churches in Pozzuoli that were declared uninhabitable followingthe bradyseismic emergency have been undergoing safety measures to protect the works of art housed within them. This was announced by the Superintendence of Archaeology,...
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The flower as form, matter, and symbol, but also as an ambiguous, obscure, and potentially destructive element. This is the starting point for *I fiori del male*(The Flowers of Evil), a project dedicated to the work of Chiara Camoni, presented by Soc...
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In England , national museums will continue to be free for everyone, including visitors from abroad. The U.K. government has confirmed that it will not introduce a ticketing system reserved for international tourists— a possibility that had been cons...
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In the Taunus Forest in Hesse (Germany), just a few centimeters below the surface, archaeologists have uncovered a Roman temple dedicated to Mars, along with votive stones, a statuette of the goddess Victoria, and fragments of what may be a statue of...
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Farewell to Paola Bracco, a highly skilled conservator and a key figure atthe Opificio delle Pietre Dure, where she helped train generations of conservators and art historians, sharing her professional experience with colleagues and students.
Throug...
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A monumental stained-glass window, paintings, collages, drawings, and liturgical vestments chronicle the artistic and spiritual journey of Father Costantino Ruggeri, a Franciscan friar, painter, sculptor, and architect originally from Franciacorta. F...
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Milan is dedicating a retrospective exhibition to Carla Cerati on the centennial of her birth and ten years after her passing. From September 26, 2026, to January 10, 2027, Palazzo Reale will host “Carla Cerati. Plural Feminine.” Photography and Writ...
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An ancient Jewish ritual bath, approximately 2,000 years old, four meters wide, and weighing 25 metric tons, was excavated intact from beneath the ground in Kiryat Gat, in southern Israel. Moving it required a crane with a lifting capacity of 300 met...
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After six years of restoration work, three masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance are once again on view to the public at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. The restoration of the first three paintings belonging to the monumental Cycle of...
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From September 25, 2026, to January 10, 2027, the Napoleonic Museum in Rome will host “Italian Baroque in Dresden.” Architectural Drawings from the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen is an exhibition dedicated to a collection of drawings and ...
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From October 15, 2026, to February 28, 2027, Spazio Varesina 204, in Milan’s Certosa District, will host “Martin Parr: Irony & Love—Instructions for a Happy Life,” an exhibition curated by Arianna Rinaldo and dedicated to the British photog...
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After two years of restoration and enhancement work, the Cassamarca Foundation is reopening the exhibition spaces at Casa dei Carraresi and Ca’ dei Brittoni to the city of Treviso. The 13th-century complex will once again permanently house a si...
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Two vases made in Florence during the second half of the sixteenth century bring to the forefront one of the most remarkable undertakings of the court of Francesco I de’ Medici: the attempt to produce in Europe the porcelain that had been impor...
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Uzbekistan ’s first permanent center for contemporary art has opened. This is taking place in the capital, Tashkent, where an industrial building constructed in 1912 to house a diesel station and a tram depot has begun a new life, and what was...
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A Madonna covering her mouth with her hand, a Saint John bent over in grief, and three tiny angels collecting the blood flowing from Christ’s wounds in large cups. And, at the bottom, Saint Peter warming himself by a fire while a maidservant po...
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A new archaeological discovery has been announced in the Bir el-Shaghala area, in the Dakhla Oasis, in Egypt’s New Valley Governorate. The news was released byEgypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities through its official channels. An ...
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Two works by Plinio Nomellini and Emilio Longoni have been added to the collection of the Pinacoteca Divisionismo Tortona, expanding the exhibition dedicated to the leading figures of Italian Divisionist painting. The works are Nomellini’s *Autunno l...
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Turin’s OGR is preparing for a new transformation: its large courtyards, currently characterized by predominantly paved surfaces, will become an urban landscape where nature, architecture, and culture intertwine. The project, sponsored by the ...
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