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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.
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'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.
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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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