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News from Italy & Local News News From the Consulate & Remembering Consulate of Italy in Detroit Calendar of Events in Ohio Cleveland Italian Film Festival 2013 Sponsored by the Consulate of Italy in Detroit Remembering Samuel G. Lucarelli Paul Sciria Managing Editor Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 – Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Hall This magnificent exhibition presents masterpieces of art from ancient Sicily, an island crossroads that forged a distinctive Hellenic identity. Occupying a pivotal position in Mediterranean history, former Greek colonies such as Syracuse, Gela, Akragas and Selinos emerged as wealthy city-states, where innovation and experimentation flourished. It celebrates Sicilian culture of the fifth to third centuries B.C., when its art, architecture, theater, poetry, philosophy and science left an original and enduring stamp on both mainland Greece and Rome. Over 150 objects bear witness to the military and athletic victories, religious and civic rituals, opulent lifestyles and intellectual attainments that shaped the western Greek world. The exhibition celebrates 2013 as the Year of Italian Culture in the United States, an initiative of the Italian Mini