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Digitally Mapping Cultural Heritage Sites in Italy, Brazil, and Turkey

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 13, 2019February 14, 2019

The Getty Foundation has awarded $1 million in grants to support virtual preservation of cultural locations worldwide.

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Uffizi Gallery Launches Online Campaign for Return of Painting Stolen by Nazis

Avatar photo by Zachary Small January 3, 2019

The Uffizi’s director has used social media to call out Germany authorities who have yet to respond to his requests for restitution.

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The Woman Who Dedicated Her Life to Uncovering the Female Artists of the Italian Renaissance

Avatar photo by Zachary Small July 19, 2018

Jane Fortune once fell in love with the Renaissance artist Plautilla Nelli at a Florence book fair. She’s since devoted her life to uncovering and restoring the great works of hitherto unknown women painters of the last six centuries.

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Italy Earmarks €80M for 12 Cultural Projects, Including Rebuilding Colosseum Floor

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton August 5, 2015

On Tuesday Dario Franceschini, Italy’s Minister of Heritage, Culture, and Tourism, announced that the superior council for cultural assets and landscape has committed €80 million (~$87 million) to 12 major cultural projects.

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Donatello’s Florence Cathedral Sculptures Cross the Atlantic for the First Time

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 18, 2015March 22, 2015

Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral is an improbable exhibition, with 23 early Renaissance pieces that have rarely (if ever) left Italy, let alone crossed the Atlantic to arrive at this small Upper West Side museum.

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All Art Is Contemporary, Part 3: Florence

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli September 21, 2013January 29, 2016

FLORENCE, Italy — Is there a more hallucinatory painter than Jacopo Carucci, more popularly known as Jacopo Pontormo?

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Get This Season’s It Bag, Courtesy of Leonardo da Vinci

by Alexander Cavaluzzo January 19, 2012January 22, 2012

Based upon sketches drawn round the time he worked on “The Last Supper” (15th C.), an Italian fashion house is introducing a new bag designed by the original Renaissance man himself.

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