cultural patrimony

April 27, 2014
As another tourist season gets into full swing, Venice once again struggles to manage large crowds and the immense ships that bring them to the city for day trips.

April 5, 2014
Bulgari has offered €1.5m to restore the Spanish Steps in Rome in response to the Italian government’s appeal for help.

April 3, 2014
institutefinearts : Lantern Slides: Monuments Men, Brescia, Italy, Cathedral, original state and with the cupola on fire, Commission for the Restoration of Italian Monuments, images gift of IFA alumnus Frederick Hartt

March 18, 2014
Great Pompeii Project trapped in bureaucratic limbo.

February 28, 2014
Today authorities will repossess an ancient Roman sarcophagus lid that was set to go on sale at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.

February 20, 2014
institutefinearts : Before and after destruction lantern slides of the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino taken by the Monument’s Men.

January 27, 2014
Giovanni Nistri, credited with overseeing the return of the famous Euphronios krater from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to Italy, has been appointed to head the “Great Pompeii Project”—a €105m campaign to preserve the ancient site.

January 23, 2014
Cristina Ruiz and Javier Pes report in the Art Newspaper on Italy’s demand for the immediate return of antiquities once owned by the disgraced antiquities dealer Robin Symes , declared bankrupt in 2003.

December 5, 2013
Sicilian officials have placed an export ban on twenty-three artworks deemed the island’s most important.

December 3, 2013
Francesco Vezzoli’s “The Church of Vezzoli,“ meant to be shown at MoMA’s PS1, has run up against cultural patrimony laws in Italy .