
Culture Minister Sandro Bondi on Thursday presented 14 antiquities returned to Italy by the Cleveland Museum of Art after the government proved that the works had been looted or stolen.

The Catholic Church risks approaching modern science with the same prejudices that resulted in it rejecting the theories of Galileo, a Vatican official warned Thursday.

The Vatican has spent over three million euros restoring the last frescoes ever painted by Michelangelo which may have unveiled a new self-portrait by the Renaissance genius.

Italian horror master Dario Argento will be given this year's Ischia Legend Award, to be handed out July 14 at the VII Global Film & Music Festival.

An upcoming exhibition in Ferrara promises to show a quieter, more reflective side of Giovanni Boldini, a local boy who made it big painting flashy portraits of high-society Paris.

Naples is celebrating the ancient origins of the performing arts with a new exhibition that opens Thursday showcasing Greek and Roman mosaics, frescoes and masks with a connection to the theatre.

Italian movie icon Gina Lollobrigida will be showing off her lesser-known but greatly praised talents as a photographer with a sweeping retrospective that opens Friday in Rome.

Art police on Wednesday seized five Roman amphorae that traffickers had removed from an ancient shipwreck and hidden elsewhere under the sea off the Sicilian island of Filicudi.

There is cautious optimism in the men's fashion world that the economy will pick up at the end of the year and open the way towards a recovery in 2010.

The extraordinary designs and distinctive style of Bulgari are spotlighted in a new show celebrating 125 years since the Italian jewellers opened its first shop in Rome.