The Local Italy https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Can Italy force a US museum to return this long-lost Ancient Greek sculpture? Italy's highest court has rejected an appeal by the Getty Museum to hold on to a contested bronze sculpture of a young man, attributed to famed Greek artist Lysippos and lost for millennia before being fished out of the Adriatic by Italian fishermen. https://www.thelocal.it/20181205/italy-getty-museum-victorious-youth-lysippos-sculpture Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:02:36 +0100 italy-getty-museum-victorious-youth-lysippos-sculpture Pensioner claims €15m Picasso was a gift UPDATED: Italian police are trying to establish the true owner of a Picasso painting worth €15 million after confiscating it from a pensioner who says he was given it for free. https://www.thelocal.it/20150327/italian-police-seize-15m-picasso-painting Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:29:00 +0100 italian-police-seize-15m-picasso-painting Juliet's breast disfigured 'from too much touching' It’s meant to bring luck in love, but tourists flocking to the fair city of Verona to touch the right breast of a statue of Juliet, the protagonist of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, have instead disfigured the sculpture. https://www.thelocal.it/20131011/juliets-breast-disfigured-from-too-much-touching Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:27:00 +0200 juliets-breast-disfigured-from-too-much-touching Official vandalizes 'blasphemous' sculpture Alessandro Bruzzi, a former right-wing political advisor, sparked a row in the city of Carrara on Wednesday after allegedly vandalizing a sculpture he deemed 'blasphemous' because it depicts a woman with her legs spread as she runs. https://www.thelocal.it/20130704/official-vandalizes-blasphemous-sculpture Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:06:00 +0200 official-vandalizes-blasphemous-sculpture