Rome
Getty curator could escape charges on a technicality
Marion True faces charges of conspiring to receive illicitly excavated artefacts
Italy gets antiquities back from Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The museum bought in good faith, but was shown evidence that they had left Italy illicitly
Marion True trial delayed by lawyers’ strike
This is in response to Italy's new liberalisation measures
British artists inaugurate new Roman museum
A US-based private collector is putting his art on public display
The Marion True trial continues: is there any progression in the courtroom?
The Art Newspaper reports on the events of the continuing trial
Rome embraces another Florida-based collector, Bilotti
Loans to Palazzo Venezia and talks for new contemporary arts centre
Ex-Getty antiquities curator appears in Italian court
Marion True made a surprise appearance on the first day of the trial
Now former Getty antiquities curator Marion True goes on trial this month
Marion True has resigned from the museum and the institution is to return three artefacts to Italy
Villa Borghese Orangery to be renamed the Bilotti Museum
Rome says yes to collector’s demands
A growing number of young collectors are now buying contemporary art in Rome
Has the Eternal City overtaken Milan and Turin?
Meet the man who wants to open a Hirst chapel in Rome
The Italian collector Carlo Bilotti has commissioned Damien Hirst to create four paintings of the Evangelists which he wants to display in a deconsecrated church
Marion True hearing postponed to March
Postponement is due to document translation troubles
New appointment at the Pontifical Academy, Rome
Letizia Pani Ermini, the specialist in medieval archaeology, has been appointed president of the Pontifical Academy in Rome by the Pope.
An Italian archaeologist pleads for professionals to gather information from farmers and from those living near ancient sites
The integrity of most archaeological sites in Italy has been compromised by extensive illicit excavations, which have caused the loss of an enormous quantity of archaeological information
Cavallini discovery reopens superiority debate between Quattrocento Roman and Florentine schools
Will Cavallini or Giotto reign supreme?
The grandest archaeological project since Mussolini’s time has required a special, bureaucracy-defeating agreement
Where archaeology becomes power
War and peace photography of Robert Capa on show at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni
A celebration of a dramatic life
In 1993 Rome’s town council began preparing for the Millennium. The debate has been over how much to alter Mussolini’s propagandistic exploitation of imperial remains
The priject to execavate the imperial fora of Augustus, Vespasian, Nerva and Trajan has been described as “every archaeologist’s dream”
Collection of interior design scholar Mario Praz reinstated to Palazzo Primoli apartment
Praz bequeathed the entirety of his collection to the Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna, in the hope that his home would become a satellite of the museum
Italian town begs the Cleveland Museum for their cross back, per favore
Illegally sold in the 1960s, it was bought by the US museum in good faith but the Italians would like it returned
Ethiopian football fans demand return of Axum obelisk looted by Mussolini
Official campaign for restitution of sculptured stele
Unidroit lawyers meet for international agreement on restitution of stolen works of art
Stumbling blocks: attempts to define “national treasure” and abolition of passage of title in “good faith” purchases
Milan to be Italy's candidate for the European Agency for the Environment
Plans to replace Milan with Venice as a candidate have been scrapped