14 Feb-2 May 2004. This exhibition, which will move to the Metropolitan Museum of New York after its Italian run, traces the development of realist art from Leonardo Da Vinci to Caravaggio.
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12-18 Feb 2004. Conducted by Nello Santi, directed by Roberto Lagan, with Debora Veronesi, Manuela Custer, Eteri Lamoris, Alessandro Liberatore, Francesco Piccoli.
Applications to hire non-EU workers can be made following the announcement of the 2004 quota for the number of non-EU immigrants who will be allowed to work in Italy: a total of 50,000 seasonal workers plus 29,500 places...
The peasants eat thistles, Goethe wrote disdainfully of the artichoke in his book Travels through Italy. Pliny the Elder, a first-century AD Roman scholar, called it one of life's monstrosities. And even recently one coo...
Samuel Fosso. 12 Feb-11 Apr 2004. The artist, who comes from Cameroon, was paralysed from infancy, but opened a photo studio in Bangui when he was only 13 years old. That studio became not only a refuge from the horrors...
11-21 Feb 2004. In The Moors Pavane and Chaconne, choreography by Jos Limon; and New Creation, choreography by the companys new director Giorgio Mancini.
12 Feb-2 May 2004. The exhibition, which comes to Rome from Spain, includes work by Velasquez and Bernini, as well as tapestries, sculptures and medals. Sun-Thurs 10.00-20.00. Fri-Sat 10.00-22.30.
Never before had this writer looked down on the Romans as regards their haircuts, dining habits, even their habitat and bedrooms; never, that is, until he boarded Topless and saw everything from a completely different a...
I got my job through sheer good fortune. I had come to Rome intending to pay the rent by teaching English. I left my CV at the Keats-Shelley museum in Piazza di Spagna and two weeks later the curator asked me if I would...
Virginia, a young woman living in Rome who needs to learn English for her secretarial job in an international firm, was born and raised in Argentina. I was born and raised in the United States and have been earning my li...
11 Feb 2004: Seminar entitled Religious freedoms in Italy 75 years after the Lateran Pacts (17.00-19.30). 25 Feb 2004: Seminar on Berlusconispeak Italys new political language conducted by Nina Rothenberg, Bjorn Thomass...
Owners of Rome's motorbikes, mopeds and scooters that were registered in 1993 or before are hurrying to obtain a certificate called a bollino blu to state that their vehicles emit acceptable levels of gas. If they don't...