The heavy marble mask is located in the Cosmedin church in Rome. The original usage of the mask is unknown.
This column, located in Trajan's Forum, commemorates the Roman emperor Trajan and his victories in Dacian Wars.
This sculpture designed by Maurizio Cattelan is a gem of controversial art installed in front of the Italian Stock Market.
One of the art pieces you are undoubtedly going to encounter is the Needle, Thread and Knot.
Il Porcellino is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar.
This colorful mural is the last public work that the renowned American artist Keith Haring created before his death in 1990.
The Last Supper is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the…
The Column of the Immaculate Conception is a nineteenth-century monument in central Rome depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary, located in what…
The Boboli obelisk, previously called the Obelisco Mediceo, is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk, which was moved in the 18th century…
Take a look at this statue commemorating Carlo Goldoni, one of the finest comedy playwrights from Italy (known for e.g. his play Servant of…
Walking Man is a 1995 sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky, standing 17 metres tall and weighing 16 tonnes.
Life Electric is a contemporary sculpture by Daniel Libeskind, dedicated to the physicist Alessandro Volta.
This monument, designed by Stefano Galletti, is the centrepiece of the Piazza Cavour.
The Horses of Saint Mark, also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or the Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, are a group of bronze…
These 13th-century gravestones are dedicated to the first university teachers. They used to write down "glosses" into their documents.
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who studied animal electricity.
Perseus with the Head of Medusa is a bronze sculpture made by Benvenuto Cellini in the period 1545–1554.
The Boboli Gardens is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766.
This monumental fountain was created by Michelangelo's disciple in the 16th century. It depicts the triumph of Orion.
Moses is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.