The Museum of Faith and Dialogue, which could not afford the new €10,000 annual rent, displayed items found at sea following shipwrecks

The 18-page document had previously disappeared from the Holy See's official archive

Albergo dei Poveri renovation is the latest stage of the Italian city’s cultural renaissance

The objects, found within the Ostia Antica archaeological site in southern Italy, include burnt animal bones and a carved wooden chalice

The former director of the Uffizi, who is running for mayor of the Tuscan city, has been accused of speaking negatively about people from Italy's deprived south

The 19th-century property, where the Italian composer wrote 'La Traviata', was due to be auctioned, but the sale never happened

Public portrayals of female figures are not only rare, they are often sexualised stereotypes

Dispute centres on the Doryphoros statue, which Italy believes was looted in the 1970s

Day trippers will need to pay €5 to enter on select days in a pilot scheme which starts during the Biennale

The street artist’s new public art commission coincides with Milan Design Week

Pop-up space syncs with spring events, furthering city’s growth as an art hub

A petition calling for the removal of Andrea Saltini’s painting, which appears to depict the lifeless figure of Jesus receiving oral sex, garnered more than 30,000 signatures

Questions asked about how former home of fascist ruler came to host exhibition of Jewish photojournalist

The inverted photo of the Italian prime minister has drawn comparisons to images of Benito Mussolini's execution

But financing of the project by a now-sanctioned Russian oligarch has been condemned as an "embarrassment"

The 3D-printed reproduction of the Assyrian statue was previously displayed at the Colosseum in Rome and the Unesco headquarters in Paris

Maestà di Assisi, located in the saint's home town, which survived a deadly earthquake in 1997, has been returned to its original luminosity

Cultural figures voice concern about culture ministry’s appointments to run institutions including Florence’s Uffizi Galleries and Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera

The critic, curator and commentator Vittorio Sgarbi was being pressured to resign amid multiple investigations into his conduct

Exhibition in Genoa dedicated to 17th-century painter includes a multimedia installation detailing the artist’s infamous rape by artist Agostino Tasso

Vittorio Sgarbi is being investigated for allegedly laundering an Old Master painting

Vittorio Sgarbi has been accused of laundering a stolen 17th-century painting attributed to Rutilio Manetti

City had been forced to cordon off leaning 12th-century structure

A major scientific research project led by the World Health Organisation and Jameel Arts & Health Lab aims to find out

Last checked by the authorities in over 50 years ago, the painting had been kept in a private home since the 1980s and is in extremely poor condition

Investigation by Italy’s broadcaster about the whereabouts of art from the late industrialist’s collection has revealed apparent widespread failure to enforce country’s cultural export rules

Schmidt has criticised Dario Nardella for plans to deploy security guards at shopping centres in the city, after suggestions for similar protection at the museum were rejected

The original version of the artist's Venus of the Rags was set alight only two weeks after being installed outside the city's town hall

The mission of the project, designed by OMA architects, is to make the museum more accessible to the public

Members of Italy’s ruling coalition have described the 128-year-old exhibition as a "fiefdom" of the left