Rome
Why Bridget Riley's bold ceiling painting at the British School at Rome is an exercise in 'soft power'
The 92-year-old artist's first-ever ceiling work takes inspiration from the "colour of the skies" and follows in the footsteps of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescos
Texan princess evicted from Rome villa with Caravaggio ceiling
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
Calling Mr Bernini to gate 35—artist’s Salvator Mundi sculpture goes on show at Rome airport
Italian government approves display of sculptural icon in new boarding area
Italy plans high-speed train between Pompeii and Rome to increase tourism to heritage sites
The €35m development will include a new train station adjacent to the Pompeii archaeological site
Five panels from Dosso Dossi's ‘magnificent’ Renaissance frieze reunited for exhibition in Rome
The Galleria Borghese has brought together the Aeneas Frieze panels from collections around the world
Bridget Riley is bringing the colours of ancient Egypt to Rome with a major ceiling painting commission
Riley will transform the barrel-vaulted ceiling at the British School at Rome with a palette of bold colours based on ancient Egyptian iconography
Revealed: Rome's new €100m culture masterplan
The National Roman Museum's director Stéphane Verger shares the radical new plans that will revamp four landmark museum and heritage sites in Italy
Death of Vatican cleric puts his lauded but mysterious art collection under new scrutiny
Canon Monsignor Michele Basso was investigated for fraud in 2000 after allegedly trying to sell fake works
Carracci's lavish frescoes from dismantled Roman chapel are reunited in their home city after 200 years in exile
Exhibition at Palazzo Barberini is the finale of a “momentous” trio of shows bringing the cycle of 16 works back together
Man arrested after attacking ancient sculptures at Vatican Museums in Italy
The 65-year-old tourist reportedly told museum staff he wanted to see the Pope before throwing the Roman busts to the ground
Ten essential artworks to see in Rome
From Michelangelo's horned Moses to Mussolini's cancelled Universal Exposition, we round up some of the Italian capital's unmissable artistic treasures
Despite €94m discount, Rome villa with Caravaggio's only ceiling painting fails to sell at auction—again
Slashing Ludovisi Casino's asking price by 20% did nothing to entice would-be buyers; the Italian state is being pressured to purchase the property before it is offered a third time
The American Academy in Rome picks new director, the first woman of colour to lead the institution in its 128-year history
Aliza Wong, a professor and scholar who has written extensively about modern Italian history and culture, will take the reins in July
More than just marble: expansive new book on Bernini focuses on his world as much as his sculptures
A “kaleidoscopic approach” immerses the reader in 17th-century Italy
'Laboratory of the future': Rome's Maxxi museum unveils plans for new R&D centre, green spaces and solar energy
Sustainable masterplan will cover Zaha Hadid building in solar panels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Cao Fei explores past, present and future at Rome’s Maxxi museum
Acclaimed Chinese artist’s video and installation pieces come to Italy for the first time
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