Italian Art and Culture

I was instantly smitten with Padua’s Palazzo della Ragione. A building where history, art, law, politics and food have met for over eight centuries, it could …

It is very easy to get in touch with Italy’s past. You don’t even need to go to a museum! It is everywhere. As soon …

So, the start of this week marked the end of Carnevale – this just over half a month long extravaganza when masks, confetti and stunning …

What do you do when you need to go across the Grand Canal in Venice and you are miles away from the nearest bridge? Why, …

How good a boy or a girl have you been in the preceding twelve months is a question of utter importance to every Italian child …

A few days ago I came face to face with three rather sinister-looking ladies. They had disproportionate faces with rather prominent noses, bewitching eyes, wispy …

‘By carving away the top white layer the dark layer at the bottom is revealed, thus creating contrast.’, tells me the cameo maker as his …

Today I am going to show you the quirkiest museum in Vicenza. I loved it so much that I went there twice taking hundreds of …

This is a story in pictures of how we went to the antiques market in Piazzola sul Brenta and found an open-air modern art exhibition …

The room was dark. The long coiling body of the snake filled me with dread. Instinctively, I recoiled back, but – unable to control a …