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On the evening of February 20, the Deputy Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, Davide Corriero, together with the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, Alberta Lai, proudly inaugurated the "Mosaico. Italian Code of a Timeless Art" exhibition at The Leonardo Museum of Salt Lake City. This impressive showcase, hosted in su...

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Italy remains one of the most sought-after cultural destinations in the world, with its cities of art continuing to attract increasing attention from global tourists. This is highlighted in the 2025 Cultural Tourism Report, which offers a comprehensive analysis of the cultural tourism trends in Italy, utilizing Artificial Intelligence, Machine Lear...

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Workers were hardly surprised when they stumbled upon ancient ruins in the Italian town of Rimini in 1989. Now a popular tourist destination along the Adriatic coast, Rimini—or Ariminum in ancient times—had been a major Roman town for centuries, and the modern city is strewn with monuments from that period. What the workers found that spring day, h...

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The Lombardy region is applying to bring Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa back to Italy. Following an alarm about the condition of the Louvre, the Parisian museum where the artwork is displayed, raised by President Laurence Des Cars, Lombardy has stated its readiness to temporarily host the painting, possibly in conjunction with the 2026 Winter Olympi...

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Michelangelo Pistoletto, the celebrated Italian artist, has been officially nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize by the Gorbachev Foundation, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee accepting the nomination. This prestigious acknowledgment is a recognition of Pistoletto's enduring commitment to peace and social justice, themes that have been centra...

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Italian archaeologists recently uncovered a "monumental necropolis" that appeared to honor an elite class of people thousands of years ago, provincial officials announced this month. The ancient cemetery found in Trento, a northern Alpine city, includes at least 200 individual tombs, which experts believe date back to the early Iron Age, a pre-Roma...

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The Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America hosted a live talk and Q&A event at the Pueblo City-County Library District Rawlings (Main) Branch recently. The event was free to the public and took place Feb. 6. The stage featured three speakers, with Craig Eliot Cisney, vice president of the board for Southern Colorado Science Center, guiding the d...

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Inside the cathedral in Florence, just before the presbytery, on the left aisle wall, there is a painting of Dante (1265-1321). It is a wonderful visual biography of this much-loved national icon. It was placed here in 1465, on the bicentenary of the great poet’s birth. The Florentine painter Domenico di Michelino was commissioned for the work by t...

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Only a dozen of his works are known to exist, along with a few frescoes and mosaics in Assisi and Florence. Almost nothing is known about this 13th-century Italian painter, and even the meaning of his nickname, Cimabue (pronounced chee-mah-BOO-eh), remains a mystery. Who was he really? It's his works, the only witnesses to his genius, that allow us...

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Rare that such a great artist from Italy arrives in the US. The Levy Gorvy Dayan gallery has collaborated with Galleria Continua to bring Pistoletto’s latest work to New York. His last major show which I saw in Philadelphia was simply stunning - a wonderful assemblage of works, Michelangelo Pistoletto Form One to Many 1956-1974 in 2010. Here in New...

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