National spending package includes emergency support for state museums, arts organisations and cultural businesses

The fire is now under control, but the mayor warns people to stay indoors and keep their windows closed

Belgian museum director says his institution is “ready to serve as a test room”

Art history removes the numinous from art. At the Vatican’s Covid-19 blessing we saw it invoked again

Fourteen artists have been asked by the L’Internationale museum group to participate in the project, which supports artists with "quick, modest commissions"

Signatories include leaders at Rome's MaXXI Museum and Venice’s civic museums as well as the artist Paola Pivi

Video is part of Italy's "Culture never stops!" initiative providing online access to cultural and heritage sites

The Art Newspaper's founder-editor Anna Somers Cocks on the impact of Covid-19 on Turin, where she is in lockdown

Performance artist says we "must learn a lesson" from the disaster of the pandemic in her contribution to Palazzo Strozzi's new digital project

We speak to our journalists Anna Somers Cocks and Lisa Movius about their experiences of lockdown. Plus, we begin a new feature—Lonely Works—where we look at individual works of art that are now hanging unseen in galleries. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

Chinese artist's video is part of Palazzo Strozzi's new digital project for users during lockdown

He designed many prestigious buildings in Italy and internationally and led the visual arts section of the Venice Biennale twice in the 1970s

Images of clearer water and returning wildlife to the Italian city are being posted on social media

An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April

The biennial's 17th edition will now only run for three months rather than six

Lino Frongia was arrested in September as part of a major investigation involving works purportedly by Lucas Cranach, Frans Hals, Parmigianino, Gentileschi and Bronzino

Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure “visitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other”

The committee had advised against moving Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X; the museum loaned it to Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale regardless

President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist wants to set up a nationalist bootcamp in an Italian monastery

Public and private institutions in Venice, Milan and Turin will stay closed for at least a week as more than 200 cases of Covid-2019 are confirmed

Andrea della Robbia’s Mary Magdalene was acquired by Hermann Göring in 1941

The Vatican Museums celebrate Raphael’s 500th anniversary by hanging his tapestries in the Sistine Chapel for which they were created

Italian judge said his opinion of the 2013 show was based on his “proven and recognised competence and experience”

The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices

Tuscany has acquired agency collection and will create a new foundation in Florence to preserve its more than five million items

He will be overseeing the Italian city's art biennial as well as film, dance, theatre and music festivals

Book tells the tale of how Italian museum amassed such a vast array of important sculptures thanks to Frenchman Louis-Claude Carrand

Decision to lease Italian medieval monastery to an organisation affiliated with President Trump’s former chief strategist is blamed on staff shortages

More evidence has emerged that the flood barriers have serious technical problems

Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago