Books Emilia Romagna restoration
What do a marble altar commissioned by Augustus and Donald Trump’s political messaging have in common? One answer is offered in *Images of Power: Art and Propaganda from Augustus to Trump*, the new book by Federico Giannini (Massa, 1986)…
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Ancient art Lake Vagli Tuscany
One detail didn’t add up: Paolo Violini, director of the Vatican Museums’ Painting Restoration Laboratory, was standing on the scaffolding set up in front of the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, just a few centimeters from…
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The Ostia Antica Archaeological Park is preparing to offer visitors a unique experience that aims to bring the atmosphere of the Roman city and its port back to life through virtual reality. The multimedia project will be officially…
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Ancient art Antonio Fontanesi Japan Modern Art Nineteenth century Turin
Two new works attributed to Caravaggio in just twenty-four hours: a record, and it happened between yesterday and this morning. Yesterday, November 7, in Montepulciano, art historian Gianni Papi attributed to Michelangelo Merisi a portrait…
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News Architecture Massimiliano Fuksas
"By the way, there's a Georgia O’Keeffe painting in the closet." That single sentence—spoken almost in passing by a woman in her Manhattan apartment—was enough to bring to light a painting by the famous American artist that had…
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Cinema, theater and TV Macchiaioli Risorgimento
This week’s television lineup is packed with programs on art history, its key figures, and great cultural treasures. From *The Venus de Milo* on Rai 5 to documentaries on Michelangelo and Picasso airing on Sky Arte, along with…
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Today, visitors see mainly sandstone: light-colored, intricately carved walls on which a king makes offerings to the gods. It is the image we are accustomed to when we think of ancient monuments—made of bare stone and reliefs that can be…
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For generations, glass beads—one of the island’s most traditional crafts—have been produced in the former Conterie di Murano building. Now those spaces are about to take on a new purpose and become part of the Glass Museum, which…
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Four hundred years after the completion of the large altarpiece for Brescia’s Duomo Nuovo, Palma il Giovane returns to the forefront of the city’s cultural scene. To mark the holiday season, the Zani House Museum in Cellatica…
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Tourism Ancient Greece Cinema Film Mythology Review
Germany is best known for its beer, which is famous around the world. Less well known is its wine production, which spans 13 wine-growing regions and which the German tourism board—which we met in Rimini at the TTG Travel Experience…
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In Genoa, the restoration of 59 sculptures in the Monumental Area of the Albergo dei Poveri has been completed. The project, sponsored by the Friends of Genoa Foundation and made possible by a donation from the Paolo and Giuliana Clerici…
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News Metropolitan Museum Returns
Bringing the younger generations closer to art and making cultural heritage more accessible and engaging: this is the goal of the initiative that brings together Sfera Ebbasta and the Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano in Milan. The project…
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An extremely rare painting by Albrecht Altdorfer ( Regensburg, 1480–1538) is about to come up for sale. This is an exceptional event, as there are very few known paintings by this German artist, who is considered one of the first in…
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News Contemporary art Museums Verona
It was built to house plague victims, but it was never used as a lazaretto: In Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the Pesthuis, located in the Feijenoord neighborhood and completed in 1716, was the first building in the city to be constructed…
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Yesterday afternoon, November 5, a fire broke out in the ceiling of the Messina Chamber of Commerce, a building that preserves an important part of the city’s history following the 1908 earthquake. The flames required the intervention of…
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By the mid-19th century, the palm trees at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, Scotland, had grown so large that their fronds were breaking through the greenhouse roof. A photograph from 1855 captures exactly this scene: the octagonal…
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In just over ten years of existence,the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami has never had a permanent home for its permanent collection. The main venue, which opened in 2017 in the Miami Design District, hosts temporary exhibitions, but…
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A pair of jeans, a white shirt, a sweatshirt. These are items that almost everyone has in their closet and that we usually don’t give a second thought to. For Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the…
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News Lipari Underwater Sculpture
Palazzo della Ragione, one of Milan’s oldest historic buildings, is set to undergo a change of use and become a new cultural and conference center. The redevelopment project approved by the City Council aims to restore the spaces of the…
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Archaeology Archaeological Park of Herculaneum Archaeology Herculaneum
On November 5, 2026, the House of the Mosaic Atrium and the Wattle-and-Daub House—two of the most important residences in ancient Herculaneum—will reopen to the public after decades of closure. The presentation will take place at 11 a.m…
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Exhibitions Eighteenth century Gardens Madama Palace
How much space remains for what is not on display? And what happens to the works when their public presentation is suspended? These are some of the questions at the heart of *On Intrusion: Archival Interventions*, a solo exhibition by…
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Events Street art Twentieth Century
A little over a year after the passing of Luisa Laureati—gallery owner, collector, essayist, and cultural organizer—the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is dedicating a study day to her, retracing her journey through the testimonies…
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Tourism art and restoration Venice
At Gamba Castle, the Aosta Valley’s museum of modern and contemporary art, visitors can touch the artworks. These sensory experiences—made possible by funding from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)—are designed to make…
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News Contemporary art Florence
The original manuscript of Gabriele d’Annunzio’s *Forse che sì forse che no* has entered the Italian public domain. The Ministry of Culture acquired it today during the “Livres rares et Manuscrits” online auction…
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For over forty years, art historian Fernando Mazzocca searched for a painting by Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 – Milan, 1882) that he had come to fear had been destroyed. The composition of the work was known thanks to an engraving…
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