Culture
by Laura Morelli | Tue, 11/14/2023 - 04:45
It was the discovery of a lifetime. In 1975, Paolo dal Poggetto, director of the Medici Chapels of San Lorenzo in Florence, was looking for a way to funnel the…
by Jessica Lionnel | Thu, 09/28/2023 - 05:00
With summer holidays now well behind us, schoolchildren across Italy are all busily back at their banchi (desks). University students typically get a somewhat…
by Eric Millman | Mon, 08/28/2023 - 10:10
As the Writers Guild of America (WGA) approaches its fifth month on strike, with the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio…
by Alex Sakalis | Wed, 08/23/2023 - 04:00
The gloomy landscape of the Venetian lagoon has often surprised those who associate it with Venice and nothing else. “This damp expanse, speckled with islets,…
by Annalisa Coppo… | Mon, 07/31/2023 - 13:27
On the brink of “middle age,” Barga’s Fish and Chips Festival is still feeling young and healthy. This could be the slogan for the 41st edition of the quirky,…
by Gia Marie Amella | Thu, 06/15/2023 - 05:05
Everything that’s Tuscany is right here in the Valdarno southeast of Florence. Chianti’s vineyards are nearby. So are Arezzo and Siena, hilltop hamlets as far…
by Myra Robinson | Fri, 06/09/2023 - 09:26
Of all the thousands of great paintings in Venice, the favorite of my grandchildren is Vittore Carpaccio’s Saint George and the Dragon in the Scuola San…
by Janna Brancolini | Mon, 06/05/2023 - 06:30
Italian popstar Alessandro Mahmoud, stage name Mahmood, seemed almost destined, in retrospect, to play Sebastian in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Born to an…
by Liz Shemaria | Thu, 06/01/2023 - 06:33
A white hand ashtray sculpted in 1942 is lit in a glass case with terracotta hands and ears fired during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE.
Etruscans formed ex-…
by Tatjana Dordevic | Mon, 05/29/2023 - 09:58
The emerging European trend of climate activists targeting artworks and historical monuments with paint and other liquids is generating varying degrees of both…
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