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This month Italian government reaches decision on national oil company’s plan to extract gas from Adriatic
Artifact had been missing from Bologna since 1940
Palazzo Grassi's “Greeks in the West” exhibition is pulling in the visitors
Would Italian law allow this picture to revert to the original owner?
Laws now are obsessed with the objects rather than the sites
We publish here for the first time in English a sample of the huge quantity of works of art removed from Italy during the war. One brave man, Rodolfo Siviero, devoted years to tracking them down, but many are still missing. Can you help?
A company owned 51% by the town council and 49% by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux
But the process has stalled as far as large-scale restitution between Russia and Germany is concerned
Works of illustration and Italian genre photography have been market favourites since the seventies
The owner's careless sales technique led the carabinieri right to his doorstep
The solution will involve low-tech improvements to the surroundings
£13 million voted by the government has yet to arrive: most of the restoration has so far been paid for by public donation. Alberto Ronchey, Minister for Culture, has declared his aim to see thirty new rooms created within three years in former storage space, tripling the size of the Uffizi
Beautiful art in the Beautiful Country
A French magazine suggests that the Adriatic city should be put in the charge of the EC, echoing a proposal by the European Commissioner for the Environment
The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building
The proposal is greeted by suspicion and political posturing within the Italian art and archaeology world and even the Ministry of Culture.
Professor James Beck of Columbia University is standing trial in Italy
Plans to replace Milan with Venice as a candidate have been scrapped
It would be the first to be run as a plc, with works of art as its capital base and private collectors as its shareholders