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Italian design house Pininfarina to build 75 cars under its own brand name Italian design house, Pininfarina, synonymous with avant-garde designs for Ferrari cars, will for the first time be building cars under its own brand name.
'Caravaggio' painting sparks row A painting sold at auction for £75,000 three years ago could be worth millions after experts authenticated it as a work by Italian master Caravaggio
Gallery defends Caravaggio work The National Gallery of Ireland has said it is confident one of its most important paintings is authentic.
Art clean-up uncovers Old Master A clean-up of a little-known painting in the British royal collection has revealed it to be a major work by the Italian Old Master Caravaggio.
Major Raphael exhibition unveiled The National Gallery in London is to display 100 paintings and drawings by Raphael together for the first time, including The Madonna of the Pinks.
Genoa: Italian city's varied fortunes forever tied to sea Genoa is one of the two 2004 Cultural Capitals of Europe. this year some 22 palace museums were spiffed up to remind the world that for centuries Genoa has been a city of art and culture as well as navigation.
Museum honours Leonardo the inventor The sleepy Tuscan hill town just north of Florence is celebrating Leonardo with an expansion of its Leonardiano Museum
Police hunt vandal who damaged art of Venice

Police in Venice are hunting a man armed with a hammer who smashes off the hands or arms of Renaissance marble statues adorning the city.

Italian Producer Opens New Cultural Center for Visitors One of Southern Italy's most dynamic estates, Feudi di San Gregorio , has opened to the public its new $20-million winery and cultural center.
Sacred Ethiopian obelisk caught in Italian limbo

Last November, the Italian government yielded to decades of pressure return a fourth-century obelisk looted from the early Christian site of Axum to Ethiopia.

Italy has most top cultural sites on UNESCO list Italy has become the country with most sites on the United Nations' coveted World Heritage List .

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