FLORENCE - Surviving as an expat can be more challenging than you imagine.

FLORENCE – Musical schools have collaborated to produce performances inspired by the ‘musical balconies’ that involved musicians and amateurs, and that have been giving encouragement and releif to

ROME – The Galleria Borghese closed for the rest of the month of March, in adherence to the Italian government’s decree that urged people not to enter into close proximity with one another, accordi

ROME – At the time of the plagues of 590 AD and The Black Plague of 1348 in Rome prayers were the primary remedy. Prayers produced an astonishing sign in the sky that a deadly plague would end.

POMPEI – The House of the Lovers, buried in the ash by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, was reopened on Tuesday by the Director of Archaeology, Massimo Osanna, and the Italian Minister of Culture

FLORENCE - The US ambassador to the Holy See, Callista Louise Gingrich, visited the Uffizi Gallery on Saturday to admire the masterpieces exhibited in their collection. Mrs.

MILAN - Famous sculptures are revealed as part of the ‘Canova & Thorvaldsen exhibition – the birth of modern sculpture’, in the Gallery on Piazza della Scala, which runs until March 15, 2020.

ROME – At the Teatro Arciliuto on Thursday, the New York experimental performance artist Edgar Oliver delivered a thought-provoking spoken piece called ‘In The Park.’ Mr.

 VATICAN CITY – A new exhibition of early Christian sarcophagi notable for their iconography has opened in the Vatican Museums, alongside an extension of the “Mater Amazonia” exhibition on life and

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MILAN – Nikola Tesla’s great-granddaughter, Desanka Mandic, currently studying computer engineering, will participate in the upcoming Nikola Tesla Exhibition.

 ROME – Two men have confessed to stealing and then returning the Gustav Klimt painting found in a wall cavity of the modern art museum from which it had been stolen 23 years previously, judicial s

ROME – Prestigious art gallery Galleria Borghese has set itself the colossal target of raising 8 million euros.

 ROME – Recent events have highlighted that the fashion world’s links between Italy and Britain persist despite Brexit.

 LAMB HOLM ISLAND, Orkneys -- Born out of the darkest days of war, the Italian Chapel of Orkney has become an inspiration of European unity and peaceful co-existence.

 ROME – Over eight hundred works of art including important paintings by Canaletto will be on display near Brescia from Feb 5, when the Casa Museo of the Paolo and Carolina Zani Foundation for Art

 ORVIETO – The Opera del Duomo of Orvieto recently invited a group of foreign media correspondents, led by coordinator of the Culture group of the Foreign Press Association in Italy Carmen Del Vand

 ROME – Transparent workshops host the six sculptures that made it to the final round of the art contest organised by Aeroporti di Roma (ADR) for the 500th anniversary of the death of Da Vinci.

 PALERMO – The Palermo city library was scheduled to be dedicated to Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia on Wednesday, the 99^th anniversary of his birth.

 ROME - The rivalry between two early 19th century sculptors, Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen, re-emerges in simultaneous major exhibitions in Rome and Milan.  In Milan their works are brough

 ROME – Caravaggio may be the highlight, but there is far more to appreciate and discover in Palazzo Barberini’s new display of sixteenth and seventeenth-century art.

 ROME – Early twentieth-century photographs preserved on glass plates provide a unique window into Bulgarian daily life of the period in the Museo di Roma in Trastevere’s new exhibition, “Bulgaria