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We might call this remnant of architecture “remote and unknown,” scattered amid the agricultural silence of the vast area reclaimed since ancient times in the Mantua Oltrepò, yet always charming and deeply evocative for those few…
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AMART, the Milan antiques fair organized by the Associazione Antiquari Milanesi and PROMO.TER Confcommercio Milano, is now in its eighth edition. It has become a staple of the Milanese fall season and is the last majorantiques fair of the…
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The Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo has completed its renovation project with the reopening to the public of the first and second floors, which underwent restoration, functional rehabilitation, and a redesign of…
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The fragments of the “Olla di Cerere” do not come from a single vessel, but from at least two different jars, all made using the same technique. This is one of the findings to emerge from an interdisciplinary research project that…
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One hundred archaeological artifacts returned by the United States and an exhibition bringing together bronze sculptures of Roman emperors, which had been scattered for decades across various countries and collections. At the…
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The time it would take to move Giorgio Vasari’s*The Last Supper* (Arezzo, 1511 – Florence, 1574) to safety if the Arno River were to flood the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence again, as it did on November 4, 1966, is just…
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Human bones arranged in geometric and floral patterns line the walls of a small underground chapel in the center of Rome. And even deeper below, beneath the floor, lie the remains of Roman walls that may have belonged to the building…
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The *Portrait of a Gentleman in Black* is back in the news ; a few years ago, a hypothesis was put forward attributing it to Caravaggio. The work, housed at the Museo Civico – Pinacoteca Crociani in Montepulciano ( Siena), had hung…
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