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London Hosts Major Show On Pompeii And Herculaneum

by Carol King | Thu, 10/25/2012 - 09:05

The British Museum in London’s ‘Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’ exhibition brings together over 250 objects from the two Roman cities, many of which…

Culture

A Timely Twinning: How I Became Known as the Queen of the Italian Waterways

by Myra Robinson | Wed, 10/24/2012 - 09:52

I often wonder when Ruskin wrote his great work The Stones of Venice whether he knew where the stones actually came from and how they were transported there.…

Claudia Cardinale to Host Annecy Italian Film Festival

by Gabi Logan | Tue, 10/02/2012 - 10:02

Claudia Cardinale hosts the 30th edition of the "Festival du cinéma italien d'Annecy" (Annecy Italian Film Festival), dedicated this year to Luchino Visconti.…

Culture

A Farewell To Arms: Hemingway’s Italy

by Mark Collinson | Tue, 09/11/2012 - 09:18

In the summer of 2012, American Publishing giants Scribner released a revised version of Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel, A Farewell to Arms. The new edition…

Lifestyle

BBC Series Re-Evaluates Art of the Roman Empire

by Carol King | Fri, 09/07/2012 - 03:47

A new BBC TV series, Treasures of Ancient Rome, takes an in-depth look at Roman art and dismisses the notion that the Ancient Romans were mere copycats.In a…

Culture

Ostia Antica: the other Pompeii

by Wynne Crombie | Wed, 09/05/2012 - 05:35

Our sandals stumbled over the 2000-year-old stones as we made our way down the mile-long Decumanus Maximus. My husband and I had set out to investigate Ostia…

Culture

Ravenna's Lost Canals and Their History

by Lyn Funnell | Wed, 08/29/2012 - 09:11

Talk about canals in Italy and, of course, Venice comes to mind. But hundreds of years before its construction was even started, the city of Ravenna, to the…

Seismologist Pieces Together L'Aquila's Earthquake History

by Gabi Logan | Wed, 08/29/2012 - 06:12

Armed with medieval military accounts, papal documents, and ancient administrative records, historical seismologist Emanuela Guidoboni published the most…

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Rome's Colosseum Will Begin 2.5-Year Restoration in December

by Gabi Logan | Fri, 08/24/2012 - 05:48

Italian Minister of Culture, Lorenzo Ornaghi, announced late last month that the long-awaited restoration of Rome's Colosseum, funded by billionaire Diego…

Culture

Capitoline Museums Mark Getty Partnership with Extraordinary Loan

by Gabi Logan | Wed, 08/22/2012 - 19:24

Rome's Capitoline Museums are letting the fourth-century-B.C. sculpture "Lion Attacking a Horse" out on loan to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California…