Proposal follows EU directive to align import sales tax among member states, causing alarm in France which currently has the lowest rate

Restitution follows the return of 350 Neolithic and Byzantine objects from the same source to Greece

Admission will be raised by €1 to support relief efforts in the affected Emilia-Romagna region

As the country's far-right government cracks down on LGBTQ rights, public artworks are popping up in protest

The use of a computerised mascot of the Renaissance figure to promote Italian culture has been described as “humiliating” and “grotesque”

Following a bitter inheritance dispute, Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi has been court-ordered to leave the historic property, while valuable artworks and documents are to be removed or destroyed

Italian officials have approved draft bill to bring in tougher sanctions for protestors who target heritage

As the Italian museum responds to rising energy bills, culture minister says institutions’ entrance charge increases are justified

The first site in Palermo is scheduled to open this spring

The €35m development will include a new train station adjacent to the Pompeii archaeological site

The Galleria Borghese has brought together the Aeneas Frieze panels from collections around the world

Uffizi's plan to show the painting at Vinitaly has been described as “absurd” and “unacceptable”

Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera have been blown up and pasted in high definition on the walls of the Humanitas hospital in Ronzano to improve patients' well-being

The Italian artist, who represented his country at the 59th Venice Biennale, has an exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca

Restitution shows that a "road of dialogue and peace always exists", according to a representative of the Holy See

Icom and Aliph’s $250,000 project is providing training and security measures for 22 museums in countries ravaged by war

Curators of the controversial Salò institution say museum will “neither demonise nor defend” fascist leader Benito Mussolini

Canon Monsignor Michele Basso was investigated for fraud in 2000 after allegedly trying to sell fake works

Italian Lanfranco Cirillo—whose 150-strong art collection was seized last year—will be tried in absentia by an Italian court next month for tax and money laundering crimes

The Fondazione Accademia Carrara in Bergamo is showing 19 of 25 known paintings by the student who modelled for Caravaggio

The Carabinieri accuse four people of downgrading and illegally exporting the Old Master work, which has now been returned to the show in the Palazzo Ducale

We take a look at the most exciting shows around the world this year

Organisers of this year’s art and dance editions recycled exhibition materials and switched to renewable energy sources

The Geneva-based International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is to open a second office in 2023 in Riyadh

From Michelangelo to Morandi and the Medici to the Rothschilds, a Gallerie d’Italia show looks at the relationship between artists and their patrons

Issues such as free museums and safeguarding heritage are splitting the opinions of two officials in the Brothers of Italy party which swept to power in September

Exhibition at Palazzo Barberini is the finale of a “momentous” trio of shows bringing the cycle of 16 works back together

"Artemisia UpClose" project at Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, will use state-of-the-art technology to show the original painting

The 65-year-old tourist reportedly told museum staff he wanted to see the Pope before throwing the Roman busts to the ground

Plus, Carnegie International, the US's longest-running contemporary art exhibition, and a mystifying egg sculpture