From December 8 through the holiday season, images of Giotto’s famous frescoes adorn the façades Basilica of St Francis, the Cathedral of San Rufino, the Basilica of S. Chiara, and the Abbey of St Peter in Assisi. Giotto’s Nativity switches to a video-mapping show presenting a glimpse of the Basilica of St. Francis’ interior […]
The Italian rock band, Maneskin, won big at the American Music Awards 2022. Beating the Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers, the musicians were awarded for “Favorite Rock Song” with their song Beggin’. The hit single had previously topped the Spotify world chart dethroning Olivia Rodrigo ‘s Good 4 U and became the second […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art brings to the stage a new exhibition that reconstructs classical antiquities through color. The exhibit, titled Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, welcomes an array of pieces representing the Cycladic, Archaic Greek, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods and transforms them into complex and colorful entities. The reconstruction of the 17 replicas […]
Mario Martone arrived in New York to preview his award-winning film “Nostalgia’. The viewing comes to be after the film received a nomination for the Oscars with the members of the Academy, as well as for the inauguration of the seventh edition of the Italy on Screen Today Festival. While the film revolves around a […]
The native New Yorker, Claudia Palmira, launches her new luxury Italian silk scarves series at the Met Opera Shop at Lincoln Center. The retail store is the first of its kind to debut the selections to the public. The special silk scarves series capture Palmira’s operatic experiences while in Box 28 at The Metropolitan Opera. […]
The renowned director, Michele Placido, returned to the film making scene with his 14th film at the premiere of the Rome Film Festival 2022: L’ombre di Caravaggio (The Shadow of Caravaggio). Most known for tackling controversial and delicate issues, Placido brings to life the artist and his dramatic life and works. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, […]
In August 2020, a port area of Beirut experienced a horrible and deadly explosion that damaged a diverse array of paintings and antiques. However, one anonymous painting that was impaled by shards of glass resulted in an extraordinary discovery. Officially declared by experts, the anonymous painting is from one the greatest 17th-century Italian painters, Artemisia […]
On October 28, NYU Casa Italiana will be hosting the launch of WICIP, the first international project dedicated to promoting Italian written, produced, and directed by women. The organization has the mission to “showcase women’s talent in cinema and promote Women Empowerment in an inclusive format”. The WICIP project was created by Angela Prudenzi and […]
This fall the Minneapolis Institute of Art brings a new exhibition about Sandro Botticelli and his relationship to the Renaissance era in Florence. Set to take place from October 16, 2022, to January 8, 2023, the exhibition will display not only works of Botticelli, but also of artists who were active during his time. All […]
The French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier is under the limelight after the Uffizi museum in Florence announces it will be suing due to “unauthorized use” of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”, its Italian Renaissance masterpiece. Known for housing the greatest works of the Renaissance, such as Leonardo da Vinci to Michelangelo, they claim that […]