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In 1975, a factory worker at Fiat, the Italian carmaker, bought two colorful paintings for about $70 at an auction in Turin of objects left unclaimed by train passengers.   For years, they hung on his kitchen wall. One was a still life with fruit and a small dog, the other showed a woman in white seated in a verdant garden.   Read mor...

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Il Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività culturali e del Turismo ha ricevuto notizia della valutazione positiva della candidatura Unesco "Palermo arabo normanna e le Cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale" giunta dall'Icomos, l'organismo internazionale consultivo di riferimento per il patrimonio culturale.   La candidatura, svoltasi con il coordiname...

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Five years and an estimated 20 million euro investment to reconstruct Rome's iconic Colosseum: this is the announcement made by Italian Minister Franceschini regarding the most visited monument in Italy.   As reported by ANSA, the time-frame includes both studies and actual work, including the facade and floor area. An international competit...

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Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, aeronautics, and a wide range of other fields, not only stood without peer in his own time, but were strikingly prescient for the distant future.   He...

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As a younger generation of Italians emigrates in search of better opportunities, an older generation of Italians who have lived abroad for many years look back nostalgically to return to their homeland. The views of these two faces of migration were well-encapsulated in the world-premiere performance of "Moving Out," a two-character theatrical/oper...

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Italy is turning to the private sector to try to increase the profitability of some of its cultural treasures, including the Uffizi gallery in Florence and Borghese gallery in Rome.   Under a new initiative sponsored by the government of the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, Italy's cultural centres are likely to begin to look more like other gr...

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Italy's cultural ministry has announced that the country will spend around $322 million on cultural projects over the next three years, according to the New York Times' Elisabetta Povoledo. 241 projects in total will be supported by the funds, including a restoration of monuments such as Nero's Golden Palace in Rome.   About one million doll...

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The so-called art bonus — a 65% tax break for art-related donations — was an experimental measure adopted in 2014 for three years that was made permanent in Italy's most recent budget law. The incentive has already created a significant group of patrons. As of last January, more than 2,000 of them (between private citizens and businesses) had cont...

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di Claudia Voltattorni C'è tempo un mese ancora. Per chi vuole vedere dal vivo la Biennale d'Arte di Venezia, girando per i Giardini o scoprendo le opere degli artisti perdendosi tra le calli l'ultimo giorno è il 22 novembre.   Non si disperi però chi non riuscirà ad arrivare in tempo in tempo o chi vorrebbe rivedere quell'opera che è rimas...

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The Colosseum under scaffolding.The Trevi fountain under scaffolding.Piazza di Spagna, the pyramid of G. Cestius, and other monumental sites under scaffolding. One could legitimately ask if the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (MiBACT) recently received an extra injection of government funds. Instead, it is a new paradigm in which...

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