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Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini opened “Caravaggio 2025” last week, kicking off one of the most highly anticipated exhibitions of the Jubilee Year.  It’s a blockbuster pairing of Baroque painting’s biggest superstar with Baroque Rome’s prototypical palace.  Arranged chronologically, the exhibition places the four Caravag...

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North America’s first and only Leonardo da Vinci Museum is opening in Pueblo, Colorado later this fall. The museum will feature interactive exhibitions and life-sized replicas based on da Vinci’s drawings and sketches. It’s approach will center on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) as an educational guide to problem solv...

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In the early 1550s, Renaissance painter Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594) made a series of paintings for the Scuola della Trinità in Venice depicting scenes from the Book of Genesis. Now, after a year-long study and restoration project, three of these paintings— The Creation of the Animals, The Temptation of Adam, and Cain and Abel—will be shown togeth...

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Aielli, a town in the Marsica region, in the province of L'Aquila, is emerging as a prominent cultural hub thanks to its innovative spirit and the growing fame of "Borgo Universo." This nickname is the result of initiatives undertaken since 2017, aimed at combating depopulation and promoting tourism in the area. A recent initiative that highlights...

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The first United States retrospective dedicated to the titular artist, Magazzino Italian Art’s Maria Lai: A Journey to America is exceptional. Born in 1919 in Ulassai, Italy, and passing at the age of ninety-three in the nearby Nuoro commune of Cardedu, Lai bore witness to decades of art history and its myriad constituent avant-garde movements. Des...

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Italian museums are increasingly speaking foreign languages. In fact, two out of three visitors come from abroad, with a clear prevalence of U.S., British and Spanish tourists. This is one of the most relevant data to emerge from theMidaTicket Big Data and Places of Culture Observatory, the first study in Italy based on a data-driven approach that...

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  Organic agriculture in Italy: growth, markets, and sustainability Healthcare rankings of regions and top hospitals in Italy Italy's economic outlook: mixed results in public finance and growth Art and medicine: diagnostic analysis supports restoration of cultural heritage at Milan hospital Liquidity in Italian bank accounts rises again: almost 20...

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The Italian Government has established new rules for the rationalization and updating of the artistic and disciplinary sectors of Higher Artistic, Musical, and Dance Education in Italy. The revision and reorganization of these sectors have allowed for the optimization of their structure and the updating of content and profiles in light of new needs...

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Providing insight to the beliefs, values, and needs of a particular culture, architecture and design prove crucial to better understanding a group of people. The design of different buildings and structures, for instance, must be functional to meet the needs of a community, but the way in which the design accomplishes its goals reveals the values o...

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For some, the sounds might be puzzling — a clank, a hiss, a whoosh. But for coffee aficionados, there’s no mystery at all. It’s merely the hum and clatter of a delicious espresso drink being prepared. The creative design, ingenious mechanics, and attention to detail that go into espresso machines have intrigued Kent Bakke for nearly 50 years. But i...

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