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Restoration of the Pietro Canonica Museum's Samurai armor in Villa Borghese concluded.

Restoration of the Pietro Canonica Museum's Samurai armor in Villa Borghese concluded.

TheJapanese armor kept at the Pietro Canonica Museum in Villa Borghese, Rome, is once again on public view in its entirety. The work, which can be dated between the last quarter of the 17th century and the mid-19th century, is back on display after a...
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Rome, car on Trinità dei Monti steps: 80-year-old driver, monument safe

Rome, car on Trinità dei Monti steps: 80-year-old driver, monument safe

A car ended up on the Spanish Steps of Trinità dei Monti, one of the capital's most famous sites, in the early hours of dawn. Driving the vehicle was an 80-year-old man who, due to causes still being ascertained, drove his car down part of the...
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Berengo Segre Foundation for Historical Research is born in Venice, dedicated to historical culture as a common good

Berengo Segre Foundation for Historical Research is born in Venice, dedicated to historical culture as a common good

The Berengo Segre Foundation for Historical Research is born in Venice, an initiative that aims to become a point of reference for the enhancement of historical culture, seen as a shared heritage and an engine of civil development. On Wednesday, June...
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Herculaneum Archaeological Park involved 667 students in PCTO pathways: here's what they did

Herculaneum Archaeological Park involved 667 students in PCTO pathways: here's what they did

From comic strips in Latin to weaving inspired by Roman mosaics, from 3D reliefs to multilingual installations: the Herculaneum Archaeological Park was transformed into a veritable laboratory for cultural experimentation thanks to the Percorsi per le...
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Louvre closed due to strike: staff protest overcrowding and unsustainable conditions

Louvre closed due to strike: staff protest overcrowding and unsustainable conditions

The Louvre Museum, a worldwide symbol of art and culture, experienced a day of tension and forced closure when its employees called a sudden strike yesterday, Monday, June 16, to protest working conditions that have become, in their words, untenable....
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Kim Sajet, director of National Portrait Gallery, resigns after pressure from Trump

Kim Sajet, director of National Portrait Gallery, resigns after pressure from Trump

After 12 years at the helm of the National Portrait Gallery (Npg) in Washington, DC, Kim Sajet has announced her resignation, effective immediately. The decision was announced on Friday, June 13, two weeks after a direct intervention by U.S. Presiden...
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According to Iranian press, Israeli attacks threaten ancient Taq-e Bostan site in Iran

According to Iranian press, Israeli attacks threaten ancient Taq-e Bostan site in Iran

According to Iranian press reports, a series of Israeli airstrikes reportedly struck several areas located within a three-kilometer radius of the Taq-e Bostan archaeological site near Kermanshah in westernIran between Saturday and Sunday (June 14-Jun...
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Inaugurated the gardens of Villa La Magia in Quarrata, after a restoration involving the entire complex

Inaugurated the gardens of Villa La Magia in Quarrata, after a restoration involving the entire complex

After a 22-month restoration involving the UNESCO World Heritage monumental complex in all its parts, the gardens of the Villa Medicea La Magia in Quarrata were inaugurated in the presence of the Mayor of Quarrata Gabriele Romiti, the President of th...
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UNESCO returns to Syria after 14 years with an intervention at Damascus National Museum

UNESCO returns to Syria after 14 years with an intervention at Damascus National Museum

UNESCO is returning to Syria with a pilot project dedicated to the Damascus National Museum, marking the resumption of activities in the country after more than fourteen years of absence. The initiative, launched following a high-level institutional ...
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UNESCO: "Concern over damage to St. Sophia Cathedral after attack on Kiev"

UNESCO: "Concern over damage to St. Sophia Cathedral after attack on Kiev"

UNESCO has expressed deep concern over the situation of the Kyiv World Heritage Site : St. Sophia Cathedral and related monastic buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, following the missile attack launched by the Russian Federation on June 10, 2025. The dam...
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Fake furniture for Versailles: convicted French expert and restorer

Fake furniture for Versailles: convicted French expert and restorer

A French furniture expert and an art restorer have been found guilty of a sophisticated multimillion-dollar scam against the antiques market, in which authentic 18th-century chairs were counterfeited to be resold as original furniture belonging to hi...
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Restoration for Banksy in Venice: Banca Ifis recovers work and redevelops Palazzo San Pantalon

Restoration for Banksy in Venice: Banca Ifis recovers work and redevelops Palazzo San Pantalon

The restoration project of Banksy's work The Migrant Child, one of the few interventions by the British artist recognized on Italian soil, has officially started. The work, created in May 2019 on the facade of the sixteenth-century Palazzo San Pantal...
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At auction at Christie's, Marie Antoinette's pink diamond: estimated between $3 million and $5 million

At auction at Christie's, Marie Antoinette's pink diamond: estimated between $3 million and $5 million

A pink diamond dating back to the 18th century and linked to the French royal dynasty will be auctioned by Christie' s on June 17 at the Rockefeller Center venue in New York City. The stone, known as the "Marie-Thérèse diamond," is name...
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A mural by aleXsandro Palombo depicts Berlusconi at Malpensa airport.

A mural by aleXsandro Palombo depicts Berlusconi at Malpensa airport.

A work by artist aleXsandro Palombo that brings the figure of Silvio Berlusconi (Milan, 1936 - 2023) back into the spotlight has appeared at Milan-MalpensaAirport, recently at the center of public debate over its new naming. The mural, titled Welcome...
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From Syrian tombs to Western museums: trafficking in antiquities after the fall of Assad

From Syrian tombs to Western museums: trafficking in antiquities after the fall of Assad

In the dark nights of Palmyra, groups of men armed with picks, shovels and jackhammers move silently through the ruins. Their goal is not memory, nor preservation of the past: they search for buried treasures, ancient coins, carved busts, mosaics. Th...
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Naples, new artwork with young woman covering her mouth with her hands causes discussion

Naples, new artwork with young woman covering her mouth with her hands causes discussion

After Michelangelo Pistoletto's monumental version of Venus of Rags, which was set on fire a few days after its installation and then reinstalled at the artist's expense, and after Gaetano Pesce's work Tu si 'na cosa grande, which stirred up a great ...
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