The 2024 edition of Rome’s open-air literature festival will be held at Stadio Palatino. Rome’s free international literature festival returns to the open-air setting of the Palatine Hill. It runs over five evenings from 7th-16th July.
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The much-awaited World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024 was announced last week, with 4 Italian restaurants on the list.
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Christie’s Old Masters Part I auction on 2nd July will include a work by Titian that has been lost, stolen and hung on walls across Europe. Rest on the Flight into Egypt has an estimate of £15million to £25million.
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A 27-year-old Dutch tourist was arrested for defacing an ancient Roman monument. The incident occurred in the historic city of Herculaneum, near Naples.
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On May 31, 1594, the art world lost one of its most dynamic and influential figures, Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto.
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On 28th May 1606, the late Renaissance artist Caravaggio committed a murder that forced him to spend the rest of his life on the run.
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Jacopo Carucci, better known as Pontormo, was born on May 24, 1494, in the small Tuscan village of Pontorme. The artist played a crucial role in the development of Mannerism.
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Art scholar Amel Olivares asserts that Michelangelo painted “A small Last Judgement with Christ the Judge and other figures from the famous fresco that can be admired in the Sistine Chapel” in oil on canvas.
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A ruling by a European court has affirmed Italy’s rightful claim to a 2,000-year-old Greek statue currently housed at the Getty Museum in California.
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Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, in Anchiano near Vinci, Republic of Florence (Italy), passed away on May 2, 1519, in Cloux (now Clos-Lucé), France. He remains an icon of the Renaissance era.
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