Achille Bonito Oliva is an Italian art critic and historian of contemporary art. Since 1968 he has taught history of contemporary art at La Sapienza, the university of Rome. He has written extensively on contemporary art and contemporary artists; he originated the term Transavanguardia to describe the new direction taken in the late 1970s by artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino. He has organised or curated numerous contemporary art events and exhibitions; in 1993 he was artistic director of the Biennale di Venezia.
Niccolò Ammaniti is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands.
Bruno Munari was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non-visual arts with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity.
Giulio Castagnoli is an Italian composer.
Dario Edoardo Viganò is an Italian Catholic priest, writer and university teacher. He was named Director of Vatican Television Center in 2013. He served as the first Prefect of the newly established Secretariat for Communications from 27 June 2015 to 21 March 2018, resigning "a week after his mishandling of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI provoked a global outcry".
Antonio Bueno was an Italian painter of Spanish origin, who acquired Italian citizenship in 1970. He was born in Berlin while his journalist father was posted there by the newspaper ABC of Madrid.
Enrico Coleman was an Italian painter of British nationality. He was the son of the English painter Charles Coleman and brother of the less well-known Italian painter Francesco Coleman. He painted, in oils and in watercolours, the landscapes of the Campagna Romana and the Agro Pontino; he was a collector, grower and painter of orchids. Because of his supposedly Oriental air, he was known to his friends as "Il Birmano", the Burmese.
Paolo Consorti is an Italian artist and film director.
Federico Ferrari is an Italian philosopher and art critic. He teaches Philosophy of Art at Brera Academy, in Milan, Italy.
The Italian Society for Military History is a scientific society founded by Raimondo Luraghi, in Rome on 14 December 1984. Its aim is promoting studies in the field of military history and organizes meetings, seminars, and other events related to the society's aim. The society periodically issues studies, newsletters, and bulletins. Its primary aim is historical research in collaboration with organisations, societies, and students. It also grants scholarships for university degrees. Other initiatives related to the pursuit of the society's aim can be accomplished or sponsored by proposal by external subjects.
Giovanni Fontana is an Italian poet, performance artist, author and publisher.
Maurizio Nannucci is an Italian contemporary artist. Lives and works in Florence and South Baden, Germany. Nannucci's work includes: photography, video, neon installations, sound installation, artist's books, and editions. Since the mid-sixties he is a protagonist of international artistic experimentation in Concrete Poetry and Conceptual Art.
Gabriele Simongini is an Italian art historian and art critic. Simongini is a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. Art critic of the newspaper Il Tempo and essayist. In particular deals with research in Italian abstract art.
Marco Maria Gazzano is an Italian film and media art theoretician and an exhibition curator.
Enzo Carnebianca, is a sculptor and painter born in Rome Italy.
Antonello Silverini is an Italian illustrator. He is the first illustrator awarded the prize MAM. He has collaborated with Il Sole 24 Ore, la Repubblica, Panorama, l'Espresso, The Boston Globe, The Economist and The Washington Post and has designed book covers for several novels including those of Ian McEwan for Einaudi and Philip K. Dick for Fanucci.
Pietà is an oil on panel painting by Sebastiano del Piombo, executed c. 1516–1517, now in the Museo civico in Viterbo.
Salvatore Settis is an Italian archaeologist and art historian. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and from 1999 to 2010 of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
Silvio Formichetti is an Italian painter. His work mainly comprises abstract and informal paintings and drawings.
Gabriele Patriarca was an Italian informal painter and member of the art movement Scuola Romana.
