With a few examples in the Langhe in Piemonte and in Faenza, a small city particularly famous for ceramics in Emilia-Romagna, “wine-windows” or buchette del vino are unique to Tuscany

An exhibition tracing how the Grand Tour shaped taste, art collecting, and the modern museum

New exhibition traces the ancient city from the 79 AD eruption to excavations honoring victims and revealing daily Roman life

Some ninety works-paintings, sculptures, cameos, and objects decorated with semi-precious stones have returrned home for the first time.

The patron saint of Italy, animals, ecology and tapestry makers, St. Francis was born in Assisi, a town in the region of Umbria, reputedly on September 23, 1181 or 1182, to Peter Bernadone, a wealthy cloth merchant, and his wife Pica de Bourlemont, a noblewoman from Provence in France.