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Roman Agrigento Resurfaces from the Valley of the Temples: Frescoes, Stucco Work, and Remains from the 1st Century B.C. Discovered

Roman Agrigento Resurfaces from the Valley of the Temples: Frescoes, Stucco Work, and Remains from the 1st Century B.C. Discovered

New traces of Roman Agrigento are emerging from the Valley of the Temples. During excavations conducted by the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa within the Archaeological and Landscape Park of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, remains of frescoe...
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Nearly 50 Fayum portraits on display in Rome: a major exhibition featuring rare works

Nearly 50 Fayum portraits on display in Rome: a major exhibition featuring rare works

The Fayum portraits—the famous faces painted on funerary panelsin ancient Egypt—are among the most celebrated images of antiquity, but in Italy they are also among the hardest to see, at least all together, given their rarity and fragility. There are...
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Alessio Nebbia: A 20th-Century Mountain Painter Rediscovered in Turin

Alessio Nebbia: A 20th-Century Mountain Painter Rediscovered in Turin

When snow covers a landscape, it seems to take away rather than add: it erases details, softens colors, alters distances, and makes it harder to distinguish what belongs to observation from what arises from perception. It is above all in this uncerta...
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Heinz Mack Returns to Venice with 36 Paintings: Light and Color from a 95-Year-Old Artist

Heinz Mack Returns to Venice with 36 Paintings: Light and Color from a 95-Year-Old Artist

Now 95 years old, one of Germany’s greatest artists, Heinz Mack (Lollar, 1931), continues to explore the relationship between light, color, and form. It is precisely this exploration—developed by the German artist over more than seventy years o...
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In Agrigento, the restoration of the Bouleuterion mosaics is taking place at a site open to the public

In Agrigento, the restoration of the Bouleuterion mosaics is taking place at a site open to the public

The restoration of an archaeological mosaic usually takes place out of sight of visitors, behind the barriers of a construction site or inside a workshop. At the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, however, work on the floors of the Bouleuterion—the ...
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Luigi Russolo returns to Portogruaro (Venice) with *La Musica*, on display in Italy for the first time in twenty years

Luigi Russolo returns to Portogruaro (Venice) with *La Musica*, on display in Italy for the first time in twenty years

Luigi Russolo returns to his hometown with an exhibition featuring some eighty works and documents, marking the return to Italy—after twenty years—of *La Musica* (1911), one of his best-known paintings. From October 18, 2026, to February 28, 2027, th...
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Svenja Deininger: Forms Poised Between Abstraction and Figuration at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome

Svenja Deininger: Forms Poised Between Abstraction and Figuration at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome

From October 13, 2026, to January 30, 2027, the Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome presents *On Leaning*, an exhibition of new works by the painter Svenja Deininger, focused on a painterly practice that rejects a predetermined starting point and procee...
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The giant Book of Revelation, illustrated by Salvador Dalí, was stolen in France

The giant Book of Revelation, illustrated by Salvador Dalí, was stolen in France

Yet another theft at a French museum: Joseph Forêt’s*Apocalypse*, a monumental artist’s book famous for its cover by Salvador Dalí, based on the text of St. John, was stolen during the night between Sunday, October 4, and Mon...
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The Soul of Marble in Florence: Michelangelo at the Heart of Symbolist Visions

The Soul of Marble in Florence: Michelangelo at the Heart of Symbolist Visions

From Michelangelo’s *David* to the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle, and on to the interpretations of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Leonardo Bistolfi, and Adolfo De Carolis: the Accademia Gallery in Florence is dedicating an exhibi...
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Aquino (Frosinone): The University of Salento Discovers Two Artifacts Linked to Roman Religion

Aquino (Frosinone): The University of Salento Discovers Two Artifacts Linked to Roman Religion

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 archaeological ...
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From Vulci to Villa Giulia: A combined ticket is introduced to help visitors rediscover Etruscan history

From Vulci to Villa Giulia: A combined ticket is introduced to help visitors rediscover Etruscan history

From Vulci to Villa Giulia. “La via degli Eroi” is the new project connecting the Vulci Archaeological and Naturalistic Park and the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome through a combined ticket available starting October 15, 2026. The ...
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Florence: Two Paintings by the Master from 1416 Are Once Again on Display at the Accademia Gallery Following Restoration

Florence: Two Paintings by the Master from 1416 Are Once Again on Display at the Accademia Gallery Following Restoration

Two paintings attributed to the Master of 1416 will be on display together from October 6, 2026, to March 14, 2027, in the first-floor galleries of the Accademia Gallery in Florence. The Madonna and Child with Saints Peter, Anthony the Abbot, Julian,...
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Florence: Gas Cylinder Found Under the David in Piazzale Michelangelo—It Was Empty

Florence: Gas Cylinder Found Under the David in Piazzale Michelangelo—It Was Empty

A gas cylinder prompted the Carabinieri to respond on the morning of Monday, October 5, in Florence, where the object was found beneath the statue of David in Piazzale Michelangelo. TGCOM24 reported the news. The cylinder was spotted around 7:30 a.m....
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Bernini, Gentileschi, Rubens: Roman Baroque on Display in Cuneo

Bernini, Gentileschi, Rubens: Roman Baroque on Display in Cuneo

From November 20, 2026 , to March 29, 2027, the San Francesco Monumental Complex in Cuneo will host the exhibition *The Age of the Baroque: Bernini, Gentileschi, Rubens*, sponsored by the CRC Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo. Curated by Maurizia Ciccon...
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Lake Mezzano: A Bronze Age sword in excellent condition has been discovered—it is the third one found at the site

Lake Mezzano: A Bronze Age sword in excellent condition has been discovered—it is the third one found at the site

A sword over 3,000 years old, still so well-preserved that the edge of the blade remains sharp, has resurfaced from the waters of Lake Mezzano in Tuscia. The artifact, dating to the 13th century B.C., was discovered during the final stages of the res...
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Monza Cathedral: Work Begins on the Project to Secure the Roof and Restore the Frescoes

Monza Cathedral: Work Begins on the Project to Secure the Roof and Restore the Frescoes

On October 1, the Monza Cathedral Foundation was presented to the community. This philanthropic fund was established on February 26, 2025, within the Monza and Brianza Community Foundation with the goal of supporting the restoration, maintenance, and...
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MUDEC: Tender for the Next Eight Years Fails to Attract Bids—No Offers Submitted for Management

MUDEC: Tender for the Next Eight Years Fails to Attract Bids—No Offers Submitted for Management

The future of Milan’s MUDEC is back on the table even before the current concession expires: the bid process launched by the City of Milan to award the museum’s management for the next eight years was in fact unsuccessful— —concluding without a singl...
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Lucio Fontana’s *Venezia d’oro* is set to go up for auction for the first time: Christie’s is projecting a price of up to 7.5 million

Lucio Fontana’s *Venezia d’oro* is set to go up for auction for the first time: Christie’s is projecting a price of up to 7.5 million

A Venice defined by light, matter, and space takes center stage in the art market. It is *Concetto Spaziale, Mezzogiorno in Piazza S. Marco*, one of the most significant works from Lucio Fontana’s famous *Venezia* series, which on October 22 wi...
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Turkey: Thousands of 2,100-Year-Old Pottery Shards Found in the Adrasan Shipwreck—They Were Headed for Rome

Turkey: Thousands of 2,100-Year-Old Pottery Shards Found in the Adrasan Shipwreck—They Were Headed for Rome

In the sea off the coast of Adrasan, on Turkey’s southern coast, thousands of plates and bowls that have lain on the seafloor for about 2,100 years are coming to light. They are part of the cargo of an ancient merchant ship that sank at a depth of be...
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The Eternity of Painting: Milan Hosts the First Major Posthumous Retrospective Dedicated to Carlo Maria Mariani

The Eternity of Painting: Milan Hosts the First Major Posthumous Retrospective Dedicated to Carlo Maria Mariani

What can painting still convey in an era dominated by the contemporary? This is one of the questions that run through the work of Carlo Maria Mariani (Rome, 1931–New York, 2021), an artist who made art history, memory, and culture the foundation of h...
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Socrates' Mirror: Francesco Ruschi's Rediscovered Masterpiece

Socrates' Mirror: Francesco Ruschi's Rediscovered Masterpiece

A young man intently observes his own reflection in a mirror. A young classmate of his carefully holds up the mirror, while behind them stands the solemn and austere figure of Socrates, wrapped in an imposing gray cloak and distinguished by a wavy, s...
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Stanislao Di Giugno transforms the chimera into a new entity made of paint and bronze

Stanislao Di Giugno transforms the chimera into a new entity made of paint and bronze

In mythological tradition, the chimera is a creature composed of parts belonging to different animals: it is, therefore, a hybrid organism in which disparate elements cease to be merely separate fragments and become something new. It is precisely thi...
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Canova and the Rediscovered Magdalene: The Work the Sculptor Created to Right a Wrong

Canova and the Rediscovered Magdalene: The Work the Sculptor Created to Right a Wrong

In February 1798, while French troops were occupying Rome, proclaiming the Roman Republic, and arresting Pope Pius VI, the Jacobin authorities summoned Antonio Canova ( Possagno, 1757 – Venice, 1822) to appear before the Section of the Arts of ...
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Rome: A 1909 landscape by Picabia, on the cusp of abstraction, arrives at Villa Medici

Rome: A 1909 landscape by Picabia, on the cusp of abstraction, arrives at Villa Medici

In 1909, Francis Picabia (Paris, 1879–1953) was thirty years old and had already established a solid reputation within the art world. At that very moment, however, the artist decided to reevaluate the path he had taken up to that point: he sold...
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The fake Umberto Eco created with AI: a performance that fooled intellectuals

The fake Umberto Eco created with AI: a performance that fooled intellectuals

Like the Dadaists ’ “fausses nouvelles ”: the fake article by Umberto Eco that circulated widely on social media over the past few hours before being identified as a hoax could be considered a kind of work of art. A fake page from *...
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