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February 6, 2017
The 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa , stolen from the Louvre by employee Vincenzo Peruggia, is perhaps the most famous case of art theft.

December 12, 2016
Italian architect Giancarlo De Carlo was born in Genoa, Liguria, on 12 December 1919.

September 5, 2016
The Venus of Urbino Goes Home.

The Venus of Urbino goes home Almost five centuries after it was commissioned by Guidubaldo II Della Rovere and painted by Titian, the Venus is going back to Urbino, where it will be on display in the Palazzo Ducale from tomorrow, 6 September, to 18 December 2016.

August 1, 2016
On 1st August 1514 Raphael was appointed architect of St. Peter’s.

August 1, 2016
Giovanni Santi , father of the artist Raphael , died on 1 August 1494 in Urbino .

July 11, 2016
Italian painter and architect Girolamo Genga died on 11 July 1551 in Urbino.

August 19, 2015
After publishing its short list of 200 candidates on 8 July , the Italian ministry of culture has announced the appointments of twenty new museum directors for Italy’s most acclaimed museums in Caserta, Florence, Genoa, Mantua, Milan, Modena, Naples, Paestum, Perugia, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Taranto, Turin, Urbino, and Venice.

August 6, 2015
Federico Zuccaro died 6 August 1609 in Ancona.

July 8, 2015
Ermanno Rivetti reports in the Art Newspaper on plans to hire new directors for 20 of Italy’s major art museums.

April 27, 2015
For the first time since the 17th century, the portraits of famous men commissioned by Duke Federico da Montrefeltro are once again together in his palace studiolo – a small, luxurious room that was used as a showpiece to celebrate Federico’s humanist interests and intelligence as well as a private space for contemplation and (possibly) study.