Heritage

What comes to mind when I say to you “Italian craftsmanship?” Many things…other than food…the crafts of creating glass or working with leather, jewelry, furniture, marbled paper, masks … and we could go on for so long. Italians are so …

Margie explains what a cameo is and takes us where artisans make it. A cameo is a piece of art, is a part of Italian history, something for the life, something that you can use but almost something that pointed …

  The Italian Carabinieri have recovered three frescoes stolen from the ancient archeological area of Pompei in the 1950s, part of a private collection of a deceased United States businessman. The frescoes dates back to the first century BC and feature …

Siena’s Cathedral unveils the beautiful mosaic floor, crafted by 40 artists and artisans between 1300 and 1500.   It is composed of 56 panels, with different size and shape, which have been made with different techniques: the graffito, the famous …

  As reported by the Institute for Conservation and Restoration, a 13th-century icon of the Madonna di Sant’Alessio is again shining in the Rectory Church of Saints Boniface and Alexius on Rome’s Aventine Hill following restoration work.     Experts …

The Estense Gallery reopened in Modena three years after the earthquake in Emilia Romagna. Indeed, the event damaged the museum but now, 600 artworks including 327 paintings, 40 sculptures and 50 pieces held in deposits, are now again on display …

The Festa della Repubblica Italiana is the national Italian celebrate which marks the birth of the Italian Republic. Indeed, June 2 and 3 in 1946, after the fall of Fascism and the end of Second World War, a referendum was …

The restoration of the 86 casts found in 1863 in Pompeii is now completed thanks to the technique developed by Giuseppe Fiorelli. Starting May 27, twenty of them will be displayed at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii for the exhibition “Pompeii …

The Alpini is a corp created as a special mountain infantry formation in 1872 by the Italian Ministry of War to work along the arc of the Italian Alps. The corps were composed of mountain men full of rigors of the Alpine …

Luxurious carriages for children drawn by ponies or baby goats, an endless collection of nineteenth-century ceramics, and royal baby prams pushed by servants, will be displayed to the public at the Quirinale Palace. Halls filled with tapestry collections, chandeliers made of …