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SICILY, Italy — Two years ago, the J. Paul Getty Museum ended a lengthy dispute with Italian cultural authorities by returning a towering limestone and marble statue of a Greek goddess to Sicily ...
Art: Sicilian Master; Art: Sicilian Master. 2 minute read. TIME. April 20, 1953 12:00 AM GMT-5. S icily has only one great painter to boast of, but in the five centuries since his death he had ...
Despite his reputation as a serious art collector, Massimo Valsecchi agrees with a friend’s assessment that he is also “a maniac.” “Of course, I am,” he says, laughing. “That’s why I ...
The Sicilian town of Gibellina has been undergoing a radical art experiment since an earthquake destroyed it in 1968. Organizers hope that the rebuilt town of Gibellina will be Italy's answer to ...
Sicily has jolted the Cleveland Museum of Art with a last-minute cancelation of an exhibition five years in the making in ancient treasures from the island, a region that has decided not to honor ...
A Sicilian mobster sliced off a piece of a stolen masterpiece to threaten the Catholic church into doing the Mafia's bidding as part of a 1969 art theft, it has emerged.
When I first moved to New York City seven years ago, my mother made me drive to a pasticceria in the East Village—De Robertis on First Avenue—to buy marzipan lambs, the traditional Sicilian ...