Giacomo Favretto (1849-1887)

In Rome, art lovers can now walk through the doors of the Casa Balla: entrusted to the MAXXI, the house of the futurist artist Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), a total work of art, is at the same time the subject of a special exhibition in the Roman Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Parisian institution acquired La Pétroleuse vaincue by Italian artist Giacomo Ginotti, thanks to the patronage of Lavazza France. The imposing bronze from 1887 is "a major work of 19th-century Italian art", and recalls the role of women in the Paris Commune. The sculptor of social verism is little known in France.

Italian Police uncovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, believed to be by the artist Giacomo Alibrandi, in an apartment in Naples. The museum from which it was stolen – shuttered due to the ongoing health crisis – didn't even know it was missing. (AFP)

Many of the artisans in Carrera, a region of Italy known for its marble, are machines. Its workshop Robotor has worked with artists such as Jeff Koons, Vanessa Beecroft & Barry X Ball. Founder Giacomo Massari is amused by the way “artists want to perpetuate this idea that they are still chiseling with a hammer.”(NYT)

The two chalk studies by Giacomo Cavedone were among the 750 drawings plundered by the Nazis from the Czech villa of Arthur Feldmann, a Jewish lawyer who died during the Holocaust. The drawing was identified by the New York Holocaust Claims Processing Office when it went on sale at an auction in northern Italy. (TAN)

Weary of painting ancient ruins, the young Gérôme (1824-1904) left Rome for the countryside to find new, more original models, like the now famous Giacomo Orlandi di Subiaco.

A 19th-century count brought together thousands of rare artworks and objets d’art in his home. The wunderkammer or cabinet of curiousity has been open to the public since his death but attracts few visitors despite its rich collection. 

Broadcast weekly on Facebook, ‘Uffizi da mangiare’ (Uffizi on a plate) invites Florentine chefs to present new recipes inspired by art from the Uffizi’s collections. Last episode, Fabio Picchi combined the contents of Giacomo Ceruti’s Ragazzo con la cesta di pesci e di aragoste (1736) with a simple mayonnaise.

Good things come in twos! After brilliantly knocking down Jusepe de Ribera’s a philosopher: The Happy Geometer on June 16, the Daguerre auction house sold another unprecedented work, this time a Boucher.

“Depero automatico, acrobatico” ("Depero Automatic, Acrobatic") in Mantua seeks to spotlight Italian artist Fortunato Depero.