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Drawing the Italian Renaissance: Raphael never seemed so beautifully ordinary
Drawing, it suggests, isn’t a rarefied activity. There are around 2,000 Renaissance drawings in the Royal Collection, mostly amassed during the reign of Charles II, including show-stopping sheets from ...
America Magazine1d
The Fellini film that scandalized Catholic audiences—and the Jesuits that defended it
Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” scandalized Italian audiences. But it was a group of Jesuit priests who were determined to ...
The Eagle1d
‘Mosaico’ Italian art exhibit featured at Dupont Underground
The Dupont Underground will host a concert full of Italian poetry and music to accompany the “Mosaico” exhibit called Hidden ...
On Italy’s Lake Como, a Rationalist Villa With a Contemporary Touch
The designer Tommaso Spinzi has restored an architectural gem — and made it his own.
Drawing the Italian Renaissance: a 'relentlessly impressive' exhibition
Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...
Electrician Finds Rare 17th-century Frescoes In Rome Palace
Rare frescoes dating back to the 17th century have been found by chance by an electrician working in Rome's Villa Farnesina. The Renaissance works were discovered a year ago behind a false ceiling ...
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Italy combats counterfeit art
Police in Italy say they have busted a major criminal art-forging network and seized 2,100 fraudulent works peddled by the ring. The artwork had been attributed to Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, British ...