Opera world split as director reinventions dominate Europe while US, Italy more muted
The opera world is split in two: Some European productions reinvent works in ways composers never imagined, and traditio...
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Italy gets back 266 antiquities from New York seizures and Houston museum
Italy is celebrating the return of 266 antiquities that were looted and sold to museums and private collectors in the Un...
That's no pizza: A wall painting found in Pompeii doesn't depict Italy's iconic dish
A still-life fresco recently discovered in the Pompeii archaeological site features a flatbread with colorful toppings t...
Italy looks for man seen in viral video carving graffiti into Rome's almost 2,000-year-old Colosseum
Italy’s culture and tourism ministers have vowed to find and punish the tourist who was filmed carving his name and that...
Italy displays returned antiquities looted from London dealer Symes
Italy is displaying hundreds of antiquities that were looted from Italian territory and were recovered from a London ant...
Louis Vuitton takes Baroque and botanical cues from Italy's Isola Bella for Cruise 2024 collection
Destination cruise shows are among the fashion world's most ambitious, winging the fashion crowd to some of the planet's...
Italy begins to reckon with Fascist-era colonial collections
Italy is starting to come to terms with its Fascist-era colonial past and the loot it has in its museums
Botticelli's Venus is an 'influencer' and Italy is not happy
Sandro Botticelli's iconic goddess of love in his 15th-century masterpiece “Birth of Venus” has now become a “virtual in...
Italy returns ancient stele, illegally exported, to Turkey
Italy has returned to Turkish authorities a funerary stele dating from ancient Roman times because investigation determi...
Archeologists in Italy unearth ancient dolphin statuette
Excavations in the ancient city of Paestum in southern Italy have unearthed seven terracotta bull heads and a figurine o...