Reviewed by GINA MARQUES

ROME -- Marco Müller has been appointed as artistic director of the International Rome Film Festival by the board of directors of the Cinema per Roma Foundation, chaired by President Paolo Ferrari.

Eminent scholar and biographer Denise Gigante, Professor of English at Stanford University, will talk about her latest book The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George (Harvard UP, 201

 ROME– Franco-Italian photographer Thierry Bruneau has died on the Indian island of Goa at age 33, local authorities and the Italian Consulate said.

ROME – A stir has been caused in the art world following the discovery of what is believed to be a long-lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.

 ROME -- A photography exhibit capturing women and their place in modern society was on show this month at Rome’s Montemartini Museum, a former power station, which is an unusual, often overlooked

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ROME -- American artist Mark Kostabi has donated a painting to be auctioned off in the capital next month to help raise funds for war-devastated Darfur in South Sudan.

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VATICAN CITY – A collection of some of the world’s oldest religious texts is being exhibited in a museum off St Peter’s Square this month.

ROME --  Within its broader programme of revisiting those artists that have made Italy’s art history great and unique throughout the world, on Feb.

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 ROME -- This was a surprisingly fresh performance of one of Shakespeare’s most staged plays.

ROME -- For the first time, from Feb.

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ROME -- A new exhibition, ‘Azerbaijan, the land of fires on the Silk Road,’ was inaugurated this week at the Museum of Roman Civilization.

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VENICE -- Museo Fortuny will be hosting a life-size wax figures exhibition next month.

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ROME -- The Savoyards' production of Kesselring's farce is a perfect mix of the deadliness of arsenic and the frivolity of lace.

ROME -- It is remarkable that two lengthy books on Rome by Sydneysiders have appeared within months of each other. To my mind R.J.B.

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ROME --AltaRoma's grand finale was Renato Balestra. More than any other collection shown over the event, Balestra’s pieces embraced the Spring/Summer season.

ROME -- The real show-stopping event of the weekend was without doubt Gianni Molaro.

ROME -- Tony Ward attracted a large crowd which filled the room. His exquisite gowns were simple and beautiful.

ROME -- Century old fashion house Gattinoni presented an ecclectic collection, with a show that took the surrounding fashionistas on a journey through times of revolution.

Vietnamese-born designer To-Long-Nam presented his set of strong masculine clothes, styled with tight ponytails and little or no jewellery.

ROME -- Guisso wasn’t the only designer to pick up on the twinkling trend.