Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb that is richly decorated with wall paintings.
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — It was a special moment for 95-year-old Maria Pulsone as a 51-inch sculpture of her likeness was unveiled at the Italian American Museum on the Lower East Side.
Italian archaeologists dug into a hot spring ... water in hopes of divine protection or intervention. Bronze snakes, statues, two gold crowns, jewelry, thousands of coins, and perfectly intact ...
A messy inheritance conflict ensued, complicated by the Italian Culture Ministry's legal control over many of its treasures. Çam got to study the Ludovisi Pan, as the sculpture is known ...
“It’s a sculpture that was in an Italian family for a long time, but covered with [paint], presumably because it had been broken,” Scholten says. “So for that reason, they painted it as if ...
Roberto Bilotti has removed the piece from Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, claiming it was being exhibited in “a dark corner” and was “not valued at all” ...