Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure “visitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other”

The committee had advised against moving Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X; the museum loaned it to Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale regardless

President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist wants to set up a nationalist bootcamp in an Italian monastery

Public and private institutions in Venice, Milan and Turin will stay closed for at least a week as more than 200 cases of Covid-2019 are confirmed

Andrea della Robbia’s Mary Magdalene was acquired by Hermann Göring in 1941

The Vatican Museums celebrate Raphael’s 500th anniversary by hanging his tapestries in the Sistine Chapel for which they were created

Italian judge said his opinion of the 2013 show was based on his “proven and recognised competence and experience”

The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices

Tuscany has acquired agency collection and will create a new foundation in Florence to preserve its more than five million items

He will be overseeing the Italian city's art biennial as well as film, dance, theatre and music festivals

Book tells the tale of how Italian museum amassed such a vast array of important sculptures thanks to Frenchman Louis-Claude Carrand

Decision to lease Italian medieval monastery to an organisation affiliated with President Trump’s former chief strategist is blamed on staff shortages

More evidence has emerged that the flood barriers have serious technical problems

Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago

An Italian appellate court has overturned the ban on the loan of the celebrated drawing

Sylvain Bellenger is reappointed in Capodimonte, Cristiana Collu remains at Rome Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna

Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini says the find shows the site is an "inexhaustible mine for archaeological research"

New enquiries suggest a US or Swiss connection through the mafia heroin trade

The Vitruvian Man—normally only shown for a few weeks every six years—will travel from Venice’s Gallerie dell'Accademia to Paris

Suspect has been jailed in northern Italy over case that has embroiled major international museums and dealers

The intensely private artist won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Critics say the move by Italy's populist coalition government will compromise the autonomy of museums

The MA curatorial show at the Barber Institute, Birmingham, challenges many of our assumptions

Three new books offer fresh angles on the Renaissance master

How often on our walks do we get to an enticing old church, only to find that it’s locked? Mobile phones provide the 'open sesame'

The mayor demands that liners use other channels to enter the lagoon but this solution also poses problems

Despite eviction procedures, the US strategist’s collaborator says they will fight to stay in the 13th-century building

We’ve seen a lot of exhibitions in the city so you don’t have to

New guidelines are published after six year negotiation, but dealers will have to provide written contracts with artists when acting on consignment