The surviving fragments of the Forma Urbis, the monumental marble map of the city of Rome created between 203 and 211 A.D., have gone on display in a new dedicated museum on the Caelian Hill. The new Museum of Forma Urbis embeds the fragments under the floor of a main hall, superimposed onto Giovanni Battista […]
One of the largest medieval coin hoards in southwestern Germany has been found in a pipe trench in Glottertal. In May of this year, an employee of the State Office for Monument Preservation (LAD) of the Stuttgart Regional Council was observing a crew laying a new water pipe. His brief was to look for ceramics,
The Altarpiece of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli, a Renaissance masterpiece by Domenico Veneziano, has been restored to its extraordinarily vivid original colors by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence. Created between 1445 and 1447 for the high altar of the church of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli in Florence, the tempera-on-panel painting depicts the enthroned
