Siena Awards Photo Festival 2026: Photography Chronicles Wars, Human Rights, and Environmental Crises Photography

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The letter from Alfonso I d’Este to Ariosto, returned to the State Archives of Massa from the United States News

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"The Lens of Time": An Exhibition in Rome on Eyewear, Combining History, "Made in Italy," and Cinema Exhibitions

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Pontormo: A massive exhibition featuring over 130 works opens at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome  Exhibitions

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Turkey: A 3,400-Year-Old Hittite Archive Discovered—It Chronicles Epidemics and Wars Archaeology

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Ischia: Lightning Damages the Dome of the Church of San Gaetano; Building Closed News

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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will undergo renovations starting in 2028: funding agreement reached Museums

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Madrid: After Ten Years, the Museums of Painting and Architecture at the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial Reopen Museums

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A reconnaissance of the theme of landscape in contemporary Italian art. The "Panorama" exhibition in Bologna Exhibition reviews

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A Neapolitan in Florence. What the Luca Giordano exhibition at Palazzo Medici Riccardi is like. Exhibition reviews

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Ludovica Carbotta: good insights, but still too academic. What the exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna looks like. Exhibition reviews

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Lorenzo Lotto's portraits at the Pinacoteca di Brera Exhibition reviews

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Cen Long, a dissident outsider in contemporary Chinese art

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Are Art Fairs Devouring Galleries? The Paradox of Contemporary Art Supermarkets Opinions

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Women's bodies, a battleground for rape and violence: Can art break the culture of possession? Opinions

Women's bodies, a battleground for rape and violence: Can art break the culture of possession?

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Freya Stark, the Last Romantic Traveler Who Chronicled the East Works and artists

Freya Stark, the Last Romantic Traveler Who Chronicled the East

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Caravaggio’s *The Arrest of Christ*: What the Mattei Inventories Reveal Works and artists

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Smoking kills, and so does the algorithm: my social geometry against the fog of “likes” Works and artists

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