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Renowned photographer Joe Marvullo is widely recognized as a leader in the ever-changing realm of images and design. His styles were both highly charged with color dynamics in his well-concentrated studies of destinations and in his more subtle romantic atmospherics of moods with a feeling of place in exotic locales.   Born in the Bronx, in...

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by Alice Philipson   A 2,000-year-old laundry where ancient Romans brought their brilliant white tunics to be dyed and washed was among six newly restored buildings in Pompeii opened to the public on Thursday. Spectacular brightly coloured frescoes and intricate mosaics were revealed across the walls and floors of almost all of the buil...

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Italian cops are hunting the American eBay trader who's selling a priceless brick, believed stolen from the ancient city of Pompeii, for just $99.   Police in Naples want to speak to the person from Lobelville, Tennessee, who is auctioning off a stone taken from the world famous archaeological site in the 1950s.   Read more   S...

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by Silvia Simonetti   The ancient Roman town of Pompeii has recently become very popular. Considering the current critical condition of the historical archaeological site, which is on the verge of collapse, drawing the world's attention towards it could be truly beneficial.   The exhibition "The Last Days of Pompeii", hosted at the Ge...

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The walk to Dario Franceschini's office is in itself testament to Italy's vast heritage. Past countless paintings lining the corridors of the culture ministry, he sits dwarfed by high walls adorned with books. In any other capital, such a scene might seem as if it were put on for guests, but in Rome it feels more as if Italy has simply run out...

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Almost 36 years ago, in 1980, the Irpinia earthquake caused the closing of  Pompeii's Antiquarium and the site's world-renowned archeological museum was forced to lock away in its warehouses its immense treasure made of statues, casts, amphorae, votive ornaments and so on.   A few days ago, all these objects were finally brougth back to ligh...

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May 3, 2016. Tuesday 6:30 PM. The Italian Cultural and Commuity Center - 1101 Milford - Houston, Texas 77006. Join us at the ICCC for a lecture on an overview of the Great Pompeii Project—a special urgent program of conservation, maintenance and restoration launched in 2011 by the Italian government and European Union after...

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Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini inaugurated the reopening to the public of Pompeii's Palestra Grande (Large Gymnasium) along with a permanent exposition of frescoes from the nearby town Moregine. The Palaestra is the area that would be used for practising things such as boxing and wrestling.   The Pompeiian Palaestra is loca...

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by Lorenzo Zanini Talking about a "return to the past" at Pompeii may not exactly make sense, because the place itself was frozen in the past by the 79 AD eruption of the Vesuvius volcano. Yet in this case the phrase seems to fit: visitors can now parts of some of the buildings as they were during the daily lives of their wealthy inhabitants...

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CASA ITALIANA HALL & CULTURAL CENTERPresents: A show of ITALIAN SONGS, MUSIC, POETRYSpettacolo Musicale di Canzoni, Musiche, PoesieDirector/Regia by Bruno FUSCO DAL COLOSSEO AL VESUVIO - From the Colosseum To Mt.VesuviusSATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012 @ 7:30 PMCASA ITALIANA Hall & Cultural Center595 Third Street, NW | Washington, DC 20002METRO...

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