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 AREZZO -- Giorgio Vasari is not as colourful as more turbulent artists but has another kind of interest.  His greatest success came eventually not as a visual artist but as a writer: his Lives

By SOPHIE INGE

ROME -- After the success of the major exhibition dedicated to 15th century Rome, the Fondazione Roma offers a fascinating retrospective on the Eternal City in the 16th century.

ROME  -- Iranian film director and screenwriter Mohammad Rasoulof left Rome on Sunday expecting to be arrested on arrival in Tehran. That, however, did not happen.

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ROME -- The mysteries revolve around the physical realities of the artworks, what was lost then found, what was there that did not belong, and what was there and not seen.

ROME -- DirectorsTerence Davies and David Hare, musician Michael Nyman and writer Hanif Kureishi will be headlining the Focus section which this year the International Rome Film Festival (27 Octobe

ROME-- In line with the curatorial philosophy of its President, Professor Emmanuele F. M.

By SABIKA SHAH POVIA 

EDINBURGH-- The up and coming comedian Jack Whitehall spearheaded an exceptionally fun-filled Edinburgh festival this year, helping to draw masses of tourists from around the globe into the Scottis

 Congratulations to Ben Pfannl on winning the August Italian Insider photography competition with his entry, Ponte, taken in Rome in 2007.

“Saint Peter, is Caravaggio here?”

He smiled and said, “Oh, you recognize me from the portrait he did of me that is in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome.

ROME -- Caravaggio the painter was a public sinner. He was in and out of jail and finally a wanted man fleeing Rome, never to return. He killed a man in a sword fight on a Sunday evening in 1606.

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ROME -- There are a number of self portraits of the painter looking out from the background of biblical dramas. But there is one painting that can tell us what he thought about himself.

NAPLES, FLORIDA --  “Only the good die young.”- Billy Joel. Just back from Rome at my house in Florida, in the woods, thoughts and visions of Caravaggio were still fresh in my head.  At an imprompt

 TORONTO--Talking about a winning atheist debate held last Christmas might be considered bad timing or taste, considering the time of year.

 ROME -- This majestic study, based on intrepid travels through a swathe of strife-torn countries from Nigeria and Somalia to Indonesia and the Philippines, provides an extraordinary close-up pictu