The Ludovisi Casino in Rome, with its masterpiece frescoes, is up for auction by the courts, estimate nearly half a billion euro

The council of state upheld a previous ruling preventing the fast food chain from opening at the popular heritage site

Repatriation could lead to resolution in other cases of looted art in museums

Loan initiative aims to decentralise Italian collections and encourage more people to visit smaller museums

Fake bust of Guglielmo Marconi in Villa Borghese park was spray-painted to draw attention to the manipulation of truth in the media

Monitoring system that includes drones and sensors will track the impact of extreme weather

Discovery announced as part of new excavations that will open up the ancient beachfront to visitors

Blasphemy laws in Italy are strict and can result in fines

Writer, translator of Virginia Woolf, and historian of gardening and farming she became a champion of conservation by co-founding Italia Nostra

Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao has been accused of "spreading anti-Chinese lies" in his works

The Cavedone studies were among 750 drawings plundered from the Czech villa of Arthur Feldmann, a Jewish lawyer who died in the Holocaust

Move follows long-running dispute with the Italian ministry of culture over the 13th-century Certosa di Trisulti

The New York-based gallery sued after US authorities seized a bust of Alexander the Great in 2018. The sculpture's ownership and future remains unresolved

Controversial “health pass” introduced to fight a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections driven by the Delta variant

Uffizi Galleries in Florence among major lenders to show marking 200 years since his death

Italian senate approved resolution that could pave the way to restitutions as politicians call for return of Ancient Greek bronze also known as Atleta di Fano

Idea for the project was considered "too emotionally fraught" for New York by Guggenheim chief curator

Unesco and citizen action groups have campaigned for the move for years

Lower-value older works and those by artists who died less than 50 years ago no longer need an export licence to leave the country—but the process can still be slow

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

The almost 800 rare archaeological artefacts are now on show at the Castello Svevo in Bari

Venetians are leaving the city in thousands because rents are unaffordable, while more than 11% of social housing stands empty

The controversial site has become a pilgrimage for far-right supporters

As a landmark exhibition in Rome draws to a close, government's plans for long-hidden group of ancient sculpture remain unclear

Four commissions, including a 30-m high mural of a Mafia-assassinated judge, have been unveiled in the southern Italian city

New branch of Rome's national contemporary art museum opens next week in a restored 18th-century palace

Work on the 760m-long Renaissance passageway, which has been closed for safety since 2016, will be completed in May next year

Archaeologists object to covering the amphitheatre's unique underground space and point to more vital restoration projects in the country

Florence museum unveiled new exhibition space and recent acquisitions

Carabinieri's recovery of the San Galgano collection of “unprecedented importance”