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Tivoli, Villa d'Este reopens after more than 50 years of closure and two of restoration its Grotto of Diana

After being closed for more than 50 years, the Grotto of Diana at Villa d'Este in Tivoli will become accessible to visitors again starting May 6. The nymphaeum has been completely restored in a two-year intervention thanks to a collaboration between ...
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Florence, at the Museum of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure an exhibition on the restoration of the Satyr

From April 1 to May 31, 2025, the Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence will host an exhibition that allows the public to discover the restoration of one of the statues housed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence. The sculpture...
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Modena, restored thanks to Lions Club The Alcoholic attributed to Giuseppe Molteni

After five months of restoration, The Alcoholic attributed to Lombard painter Giuseppe Molteni (Milan, 1800-1860) returns to enrich the Campori Room of the Museo Civico di Modena. It is thanks to the generous contribution of the Lions Club, offered a...
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Three heads that disappeared with time in Caravaggio's Martyrdom of St. Ursula resurfaced

At the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition inaugurated in Rome at Palazzo Barberini, curated by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi and Thomas Clement Salomon, and on view from March 7 to July 6, 2025, Merisi's last work, The Martyrdom of St. Ursul...
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Florence, Michelangelo's tomb in Santa Croce restored

Florence pays tribute to Michelangelo on the 550th anniversary of his birth with the restoration of the Buonarroti family tombstone under which the famous artist rests. The work, promoted by theOpera di Santa Croce and conducted by theOpificio delle ...
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Florence, Louisa Stolberg Gedern's tomb restored thanks to American donor in love with Santa Croce

In the monumental complex of Santa Croce in Florence, the funeral monument of Louisa Stolberg Gedern (Mons, 1752 - Florence, 1824), Countess of Albany, has been restored. A woman of great intellect and marked diplomatic skills, she was the wife of th...
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Florence, Torrigiani's bust of the Redeemer restored and returned to Santa Trinita

In Florence, theOpificio delle Pietre Dure recently completed the restoration of the bust of the Redeemer attributed to Pietro Torrigiani (Florence, 1472 - Seville, 1528), an important Florentine Renaissance sculptor. After a lengthy intervention tha...
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Vinci, restoration of a drawing on a fireplace underway. Scholars advance hypothesis that it may be by Leonardo

A major restoration project is about to begin in Vinci on an interesting drawing executed in charcoal on the hood of an ancient fourteenth- and fifteenth-century fireplace located in a building owned by the municipality, located near the Conti Guidi ...
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