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Erection of phallic sculpture in Naples sparks heated debate

Gaetano Pesce’s new public sculpture enflames city councillors

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Mega museum planned for vast former hospital and almshouse in Naples

Albergo dei Poveri renovation is the latest stage of the Italian city’s cultural renaissance

Eike Schmidt sparks Florence election controversy with offensive slur

The former director of the Uffizi, who is running for mayor of the Tuscan city, has been accused of speaking negatively about people from Italy's deprived south

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Seeing the light: Caravaggio steals the Netflix show Ripley

The Baroque bad boy plays a leading role in a new adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley

Forgotten Botticelli painting recovered by Italian police

Last checked by the authorities in over 50 years ago, the painting had been kept in a private home since the 1980s and is in extremely poor condition

Michelangelo Pistoletto donates new version of public installation to Naples following arson attack

The original version of the artist's Venus of the Rags was set alight only two weeks after being installed outside the city's town hall

Man arrested in connection with Pistoletto suspected arson attack

A sculpture by Michelangelo Pistoletto was destroyed by fire in Naples on Wednesday

National Archaeological Museum of Naples opening new branch in the city’s famous Real Albergo dei Poveri

MANN's new partner museum will provide an additional 10,000 sq. m of exhibition space, allowing the people of Naples to finally see the full range of the largest collection of classical archaeology in the world

Naples exhibition reveals how the city was the perfect foil for Artemisia Gentileschi

The painter, arguably Europe’s greatest female Old Master, had a flourishing workshop in the southern Italian city, interacting with key contemporaries there

Thomas Dane exhibition in Naples explores the power and precarity of ceramics

Lynda Benglis and Magdalene Odundo join historical figures like Lucio Fontana in a group show that pushes at the limits of what clay can do

How Caravaggio brought naturalism to Naples

Museo di Capodimonte examines the huge influence that the Old Master had on Baroque artists active in the city

Naples museum explores Antonio Canova’s love for—and reinvention of—ancient sculpture

Exhibition includes more than 110 works with key loans from the Getty and the State Hermitage Museum

Private View: our pick of March gallery shows around the world

New commercial gallery shows—from sculpture to shipwreck paintings

Bella Napoli, Museo di San Martino, Naples

The San Martino’s decorative arts and theatre collections are, at last, on show again, in new rooms