3 januari 2023
Since the end of the Second World War, Italians have faced the question of what to do with the physical traces of the Fascist regime, and whether to preserve, demolish, alter, or renovate buildings and monuments of that era. Fascist sites represent a difficult...
28 november 2022
The Paduan antiquarian Lorenzo Pignoria composed a small treatise on the gods of different parts of the world as an appendix to Vincenzo Cartari’s famous mythographic work. Pignoria’s Aggionta, compiled in three editions starting in 1615, constituted a new way of...
27 september 2022
About the lectures Artist collective de Onkruidenier will talk about their views of the relationship between landscape, science and art. The best-known artists of the Renaissance often practised many different professions and were seen as craftsmen as well as...
29 augustus 2022
The Battle of Algiers (1966), an Italian-Algerian film, spoken in Arabic and French, directed by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo and written by Franco Solinas, is generally considered one of the most important films in the history of cinema – and the quintessential...
30 mei 2022
In most western countries, the history of Classical Archaeology is inextricably linked with the history of colonialism and Italy is no exception to that rule. The institutionalization and professionalization of archaeology as a scholarly discipline in the...
