Diplomazia Culturale

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16 February 2016

La Valletta – Art and restoration, a focus on the Opificio delle pietre dure of Florence

“The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” (1608), kept at St. John’s Cathedral in La Valletta, is Caravaggio’s major artwork of the Maltese period and was restored by the Opificio delle pietre dure (Workshop of Semi-precious Stones) of Florence. The Opificio’s Superintendent, Marco Ciatti, will be present at the conference organised by the Italian Institute […]

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16 February 2016

Argentina – Museums and cultural landscapes focus of discussions in Buenos Aires

Museums and cultural landscapes will be the focus of attention on Mar. 14 at a roundtable in Argentina. The event, organised by the Institute of Italian Culture (IIC) in Buenos Aires as part of the Year of Italy in Latin America, is a day of study in preparation for the next ICOM (International Council of […]

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16 February 2016

Zagreb – Focus on the influence of Italian opera on the Risorgimento

The Italian Institute of Culture in Zagreb, with the Bogdan Orizovic Library, have scheduled a moment of reflection on the Italian Risorgimento with a lecture by Monica Priante entitled “How Opera Became a Tool for Political Propaganda”, which will be held in Zagreb on Thursday. The promoters of the event said the Risorgimento was at […]

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16 February 2016

Wolfsburg – The city of Volkswagen hosts “The New Light of Emigration” exhibition

The words of sociologist Milena Gammaitoni: “In the field of sociology, building reality with its different identities, both individual and collective, can also be achieved through artistic experiences that, seen as ‘finite provinces of meaning’, synthesise, recall and evoke images, sensations and collective ideas of how we were, are and could become,” could very well […]

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15 February 2016

Italy-Unesco Agreement signed

‘Blue helmets’ of culture set up in Rome to protect the world’s artistic heritage. Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni and Unesco Director General Irina Bokova have signed an agreement to create an Italian task force and a training centre in Turin. The “Unite for Heritage” task force will consist of specialised personnel (civilian experts […]

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15 February 2016

Cologne – Architecture and art, German students describe the “Piazzas of Palermo”

Students of the Architecture Department of the Cologne Polytechnic enrolled in the master’s course  entitled “Design and Construction Strategies” have analysed five ‘Piazzas’ in Palermo with the aim of understanding their functionality, social impact, potentials and problems. The results will be displayed in the exhibition entitled “The Piazzas of Palermo”, which will be open on […]

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15 February 2016

Mexico – Siena fresco exhibition to open in Mexico City

“‘Cor Magis’. The common good. Frescoes of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena” is the title of an exhibition to be held in Oaxaca from Mar. 6 to June 3, 2016. The exhibition is dedicated to the frescoes of the ‘Sala dei Nove’ (Hall of the Nine), of the Palazzo Pubblico (city hall). The event is […]

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15 February 2016

Albania – Italy holds night-long photography workshop in Albania

The Italian Institute of Culture in Tirana will present the “All Night Long” photography and self-publishing workshop organised and hosted by Art House in Shkodër, north-west Albania. The night-long workshop will be conducted by Silvia Basso and Blerta Hocia in the night between Saturday Feb. 20 and Sunday, from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, and […]

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12 February 2016

Jakarta – Montanari in concert for an “Italian Cello Night”

Italian cellist Matteo Montanari has performed in  “An Italian Cello Night” concert at the Auditorium of the Italian Institute of Culture in Jakarta. The cellist played a programme dedicated to nine Italian composers, from Baroque to modern music. Jennifer Ongkowijoyo, a very young local talent,  accompanied him on the piano while eleven young Indonesian cellists […]

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11 February 2016

Mexico – New Italian honorary consul appointed in Playa del Carmen

Dr Italo Sampablo is Italy’s new honorary consul in the Mexican city of Playa del Carmen. The pulmonologist, who graduated from the University of Barcelona, is currently medical director at the Cancun Hospital, in Mexico. A days ago he was officially presented at a ceremony attended by the Italian ambassador to Mexico City, Alessandro Busacca, […]

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11 February 2016

Athens – “Memories in Black and White”, an exhibition of Franco Murer’s drawings

The stories narrated in the drawings of Franco Murer are not only of war and occupation but also of brotherhood and cooperation among the people who lived through it. “Memories in Black and White: real-life stories” (“Ricordi in bianco e nero: racconti vissuti”) is an itinerant exhibition on the stories of the Italian soldiers who […]

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11 February 2016

Russia – Italian competes in language Olympics

The auditorium of the Moscow State University of Linguistics (MGLU) hosted on Wednesday the regional round of the Olympics of three languages: Italian, Chinese and Spanish, idioms that are rarely dedicated a specific course in Russian middle and secondary schools. Thanks to this competition, the three foreign languages have officially acquired the same dignity as […]

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