The inclusion of Russia in the line-up of the 2026 Venice Biennale art fair has sparked international outcry.

Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

Firefighters have rescued a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower in Italy's capital.

Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera museum, conceived under Napoleon as a “little Louvre,” is finally getting a modern art addition first envisioned more than 50 years ago with the opening Sunday of Palazzo Citterio.

Italian authorities have announced the seizure of an illegal excavation of an Etruscan burial site in the central Umbria region.