The Taurine Baths become part of the Lazio National Museums Regional Directorate. Located north of Civitavecchia, this extraordinary archaeological complex is one of the most fascinating examples of thermal architecture of antiquity. Frequented since...
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There is a work by Canova among the colored marbles of the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome. It is certainly not counted among his masterpieces, much less listed among his best-known works, and most do not even know of its existence. The...
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In Rome, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica (National Galleries of Ancient Art) present the refurbishment of the Salone Pietro da Cortona in Palazzo Barberini: this majestic space, one of the most representative symbols of the Roman Baroque, reope...
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St. Ignatius lived here. In the quiet of four rooms, four "little rooms" as everyone now calls them, in a little palace that he and his companions had built to give a first home to the Society of Jesus, after Pope Paul III, it was Sept. 27, 1540, app...
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In Caprarola, a small village in Tuscia in the province of Viterbo, surrounded by the Cimini Mountains, is Palazzo Farnese, one of the most extraordinary residences built in Italy in the 16th century. It is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant jewel...
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Serendipity, the British would say. It is the word they use to refer to those totally unexpected discoveries, exceeding expectations, that come when you were looking for something else. It is more than a fortuitous finding: it is a surprising outcome...
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A jubilee exhibition on Caravaggio is coming to Rome's Palazzo Barberini. For now, not much is known: all that is known are the dates, March 7 to July 6, 2025, the title(Caravaggio 2025) and the names of the curators, namely Francesca Cappelletti (di...
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In Rome , the Domus Aurea never ceases to amaze, yielding a new discovery that sheds light on the artistic workers of Nero's time. During recent archaeological investigations conducted in the monumental imperial residence, scholars identified two tan...
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