On June 20, Italy’s Cultural Minister, Alessandro Giuli, announced that VAT, the value added tax on art, was cut by Italy’s government from 22 percent (the highest rate in Europe) to 5 percent. The high tax system was a hindrance to the Italian art world and drove the market to other European countries. As a […]
After its debut at Palazzo Braschi in Rome, the exhibition Laudato Sie: Nature and Science. The Cultural Legacy of Brother Francis is now on view at the Sacred Convent of San Francesco in Assisi, marking the 800th anniversary of the earliest surviving manuscript of The Canticle of the Creatures by Saint Francis. This significant exhibition, […]
The Italian Navy training ship Amerigo Vespucci, the oldest ship in the Italian Navy, returned to Genoa after traveling around the world over the past two years. The Vespucci set sail around the world on July 1, 2023, and spent 20 months at sea, reaching 5 continents, 30 countries, 35 ports and covering 46,000 nautical […]
The Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo of New York University has been arranging free public events related to Italian culture since 1990, including lectures, art exhibits, concerts and film screenings, such as the film series Open Roads. Supported by the Baroness Zerilli-Marimò Endowment Fund, Lincoln Center held the screening of twelve new Italian films […]
The painting Hercules and Omphale by the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi has undergone a complex, years-long restoration after being damaged in an explosion and is displayed in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles from the 10th of June to the 14th of September. This piece is part of the exhibition Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing […]
This spring, Rome’s iconic Via Borgognona hosted Rose Rosé 2025, a unique cultural event that brought together fine Italian rosé wines, high fashion, and contemporary art. Set against the backdrop of historic Roman architecture and curated floral installations, the event offered visitors a taste of Italian lifestyle at its most refined. The featured artist of […]
In the town of Assisi—birthplace of Saint Francis and symbol of spiritual devotion—Laudato Sie opened this spring in the historic Salone Papale, offering a profound reflection on ecology, faith, and cultural memory. The exhibition draws from the teachings of Saint Francis and the message of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’, creating a visual and emotional […]
This year, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University hosts the Annual Symposium of The Dante Society of America, “Dante and Money.” Keynote speakers include Professor Giacomo Todeschini of the University of Trieste and Professor Alan Stahl of Princeton University. They touch on topics that explore money and the economic context of thirteenth-fourteenth century Florence related […]
In Herculaneum, the House of the Tuscan Colonnade and the House of the Wooden Sacellum reopened to visitors in March 2025 after 25 years. They had undergone extensive restoration, made possible with the collaboration between the Packard Humanities Institute, a non-profit foundation based in California, and the Herculaneum Archaeological Park. The partnership between these two […]
Andrea Mantegna’s (1431-1506) Deposition of Christ is now being displayed at the Vatican Museums in Rome for three months, which began March 20. This limited exhibition is titled “The Mantegna of Pompeii. A Rediscovered Masterpiece.” The painting, initially thought to be lost and is now identified, shows Christ’s descent from the cross to being laid […]