Rome
Remembering Desideria Pasolini Dall'Onda, who battled to protect Italy's ecology and cultural heritage
Writer, translator of Virginia Woolf, and historian of gardening and farming she became a champion of conservation by co-founding Italia Nostra
Rome villa with Caravaggio's only ceiling painting announced for auction with a €471m price tag
The Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, also known as Villa Aurora, was decorated by Caravaggio in around 1597
Hell is here and now, says curator of show inspired by Dante's Inferno
Exhibition at Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale looks at Hell in art throughout the ages, from medieval torture to 20th-century concentration camps
Italian Futurist's Rome apartment—a 'total fusion of art and life'—revealed by MaXXI museum
The small flat inhabited and decorated by 20th-century artist Giacomo Balla is open to the public for the first time as part of a new exhibition
Pressure mounts for Italy to buy Torlonia marbles—world's finest collection of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands
As a landmark exhibition in Rome draws to a close, government's plans for long-hidden group of ancient sculpture remain unclear
Walk through the 2,000-year-old Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome's first emperor
The circular tomb—used through history as a fortress, a sculpture garden and an entertainment venue—reopens as a museum after an €11m restoration
Racist or responsive? Italy to exhume Mussolini's colonial museum collection in 'critical' new display
Alarmed post-colonial researchers have raised concerns over plans to open Museo Italo Africano "Ilaria Alpi" in late 2021
First look at the Torlonia marbles, as the last great private collection of classical sculpture opens to the public
Exhibition at Rome’s Musei Capitolini is the first step in finding a permanent home for the 620 ancient Greek and Roman works
Take a virtual tour of once-in-a-lifetime Raphael show in Rome that closed after four days due to coronavirus
Video is part of Italy's "Culture never stops!" initiative providing online access to cultural and heritage sites
Coronavirus in Italy: Ai Weiwei criticised for 'insensitive' pasta meme and Raphael blockbuster closes
An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April
Largest ever number of Raphaels gathered for ‘mega-exhibition’ in Rome
Survey at the Scuderie del Quirinale is jointly organised by the Uffizi in Florence and will focus on the Renaissance master's crucial Roman period
The last of the great private Roman collections re-emerges
A 40-year struggle between Italy and the Torlonia family ends with major show in 2020
Fresco of two fighting gladiators discovered in Pompeii
Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini says the find shows the site is an "inexhaustible mine for archaeological research"
Will the UK be able to take part in antiquities busts after Brexit?
Nineteen of the accused in Operation Demetra face trial in December, while the alleged UK mastermind awaits extradition
Prefab(ulous): the story of an 18th-century chapel made entirely in Rome for a church in Lisbon
This fascinating survey offers both detailed commentary and lavish illustrations
Top Italian museum director faces trial over gym visits
The director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome has been suspended without pay for leaving the office
Controversial new director plans to turn Rome museum into art ‘asylum’
Critics objected to selection of Giorgio de Finis for role at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma without an open recruitment process
Bernini is guest of honour at patron's villa
Galleria Borghese celebrates the 20th anniversary of its reopening with a show that brings together the artist’s entire career
Book Review: The arch of time
From its invention by the Romans, the monumental arch has been a feature of the built environment ever since
Modigliani archive ruling against granddaughter
Nechtschein-Modigliani does retain moral rights over the artist's work, however
Court rules against Modigliani's granddaughter as the sole owner of the artist's moral rights
The estate of the artist is one of the most contested in the art world
Gay images censored after Vatican’s legal threat
Gonzalo Orquín received a letter from the Vicariate of Rome
Prodigious, prolific, phenomenal: Raphael’s last 17 years in Rome on show at the Louvre
The Prado and the Louvre collaborate for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition
Portrait attributed to Leonardo in desperate condition
Possible self-portrait needs urgent treatment for mould and bacteria
Has peace broken out after the trial of Marion True?
One writer says the pressure on American museums has eased, but another insists Italian prosecutors remain combative
Marion True, former Getty curator, trial collapses
Victims include prime minister’s father-in-law and an old master art dealer
Judge decides Getty knew its Greek bronze was illegal
Italian minister asks for restitution of the Fano Athlete
Marion True defence continues
“Stolen” antiquities put under microscope in Getty trial
Marion True trial: Expert archaeologist Rizzo ends prosecution testimony
As the testimony of the expert witness comes to a close, we look at what the next hearing will entail
“The Fleischmann Collection was just a front” - updates on the Marion True trial
The latest hearing in the Marion True trial links Getty to convicted dealer, again
Dodgy dealers, curators and collectors named in the Marion True trial in Rome
The latest in the trial of former Getty antiquities curator, Marion True, and the Paris-based dealer Robert Hech both charged with conspiring to receive illegally excavated antiquities
Rome gallery opening: “Larry Gagosian has always expanded in a recession”
Why is the most successful contemporary art dealer in the world opening a branch in Rome this month?
Trial of Marion True and Robert Hecht over illegally excavated antiquities from Rome continues
Complications over reputation, paperwork, and repatriation
Rothko comes to Rome for the first time since 1970
The 70 painting strong exhibition will be in the newly reopened Palazzo delle Esposizioni
The Marion True trial: troubles in the courtroom
The hearings heated up when one of the defence lawyers threatened to abandon the trial if the prosecution continued its aggressive stance
The Marion True trial: investigation continues
The trial of former Getty antiquities curator continues with prosecutor Daniela Rizzo offering witness evidence
Carlo Bilotti's plan to open a new contemporary art gallery in Rome will proceed following his death
Late collector’s Hirst “chapel” will still open
Getty curator could escape charges on a technicality
Marion True faces charges of conspiring to receive illicitly excavated artefacts
Italy gets antiquities back from Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The museum bought in good faith, but was shown evidence that they had left Italy illicitly
Marion True trial delayed by lawyers’ strike
This is in response to Italy's new liberalisation measures
British artists inaugurate new Roman museum
A US-based private collector is putting his art on public display
The Marion True trial continues: is there any progression in the courtroom?
The Art Newspaper reports on the events of the continuing trial
Rome embraces another Florida-based collector, Bilotti
Loans to Palazzo Venezia and talks for new contemporary arts centre
Ex-Getty antiquities curator appears in Italian court
Marion True made a surprise appearance on the first day of the trial
Now former Getty antiquities curator Marion True goes on trial this month
Marion True has resigned from the museum and the institution is to return three artefacts to Italy
Villa Borghese Orangery to be renamed the Bilotti Museum
Rome says yes to collector’s demands
A growing number of young collectors are now buying contemporary art in Rome
Has the Eternal City overtaken Milan and Turin?
Meet the man who wants to open a Hirst chapel in Rome
The Italian collector Carlo Bilotti has commissioned Damien Hirst to create four paintings of the Evangelists which he wants to display in a deconsecrated church
Marion True hearing postponed to March
Postponement is due to document translation troubles
New appointment at the Pontifical Academy, Rome
Letizia Pani Ermini, the specialist in medieval archaeology, has been appointed president of the Pontifical Academy in Rome by the Pope.
An Italian archaeologist pleads for professionals to gather information from farmers and from those living near ancient sites
The integrity of most archaeological sites in Italy has been compromised by extensive illicit excavations, which have caused the loss of an enormous quantity of archaeological information
Cavallini discovery reopens superiority debate between Quattrocento Roman and Florentine schools
Will Cavallini or Giotto reign supreme?
The grandest archaeological project since Mussolini’s time has required a special, bureaucracy-defeating agreement
Where archaeology becomes power
War and peace photography of Robert Capa on show at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni
A celebration of a dramatic life
Mayor aims to erase Mussolini's mark on Rome before the next millennium
The priject to execavate the imperial fora of Augustus, Vespasian, Nerva and Trajan has been described as “every archaeologist’s dream”
Collection of interior design scholar Mario Praz reinstated to Palazzo Primoli apartment
Praz bequeathed the entirety of his collection to the Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna, in the hope that his home would become a satellite of the museum
Italian town begs the Cleveland Museum for their cross back, per favore
Illegally sold in the 1960s, it was bought by the US museum in good faith but the Italians would like it returned