An exhibition at the National Museum of Bargello in Florence shows the large porcelain statues that were the pride of the Marquis Ginori Through the first of October the National Museum of Bargello, ...

Dear Harry: I have a ceramic figurine titled “The Titian Madonna” that is marked on the bottom “A Borsato Original.” I purchased it about 35 years ago from Betty Sidel in Cherryville, Pa. She told me ...

Nearly 500 years ago, Duke Alessandro de Medici was lured with the promise of spending the night with a beautiful widow, but instead met the end of a knife from an assassin — hired by his cousin — who ...

Italy's prime minister is under attack for authorising what amounts to plastic surgery on two Roman marble statues. The statues, which depict the naked gods Venus and Mars, are on show in Silvio ...

Though Italy is famous for its stark statues of nude bodies, government officials may have hid that fact from the Iranian president by covering up prominent marble genitals in Rome. Hassan Rouhani, ...

Following the news that nude statues were covered in museum during a visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Italian social media users express their anger against a gesture seen as direspectful of ...