Dealers at Artissima await ‘potentially transformative’ changes to art tax in Italy
The 31st edition of Artissma in Turin (until 3 November), Italy’s oldest contemporary art fair, takes place amid a high ...
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Moscow-based architect, who built ‘Putin’s Palace’, refuses to return to Italy to face trial
Lanfranco Cirillo, an Italian art collector who designed a mysterious 18,000 sq. m Black Sea mansion supposedly built for the ...
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Following his arrest in Italy, Old Master forgery suspect Giuliano Ruffini is turned over to French authorities
The dealer and collector Giuliano Ruffini, who is suspected to be the mastermind behind a major Old Master forgery scandal, has ...
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Dealer matching exact description of suspected Old Master forger Giuliano Ruffini is arrested in Italy, local media reports
A man fitting the exact description of art dealer Giuliano Ruffini, who is the suspected mastermind of a major Old ...
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Following attacks on masterpieces in Italy and Spain, are eco activists winning the argument?
Governments across Europe seem powerless to stop the growing number of eco-protests targeting masterpieces at major museums. The latest intervention ...
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FBI returns 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic discovered in Los Angeles to Italy
Nearly a century after its disappearance, a 2,000-year-old Italian mosaic was returned in April to the Italian government by the ...
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Shipwrecks ahoy? Unesco’s underwater mission scours sea bed off Italy for archaeological treasures
An underwater archaeology expedition coordinated by Unesco and involving experts from eight countries has launched in the Skerki Bank sea ...
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Sports Tokens Surge After Socios.com Gets Regulatory Approval in Italy
In the aftermath of the announcement, the Santos FC fan token shot up by more than 150% from its value ...
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Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to ancient Vatican Museums sculpture
Climate activists in Italy have hit the headlines again. In a protest on 18 August, demonstrators from the Ultima Generazione ...
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The Getty Museum will return a set of illegally excavated life-size statues to Italy
The J. Paul Getty Museum is returning several objects in its collection to Italy, their country of origin, after recent ...
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