The BdA was founded in 1907 under the Direzione Generale dell’Amministrazione di Antichità e Belle Arti, as a monthly information body of the national artistic heritage sector. The information on the activities, with a prevalent function of rapid disclosure of purchases, restorations and important discoveries, a sort of news bulletin, was soon reabsorbed within the wider physiognomy of a journal of ancient and modern art, maintaining substantially unchanged its character as a journal of history of the arts and reporting on institutional activities of protection and enhancement. Supplemantary to the journal are the Special Volumes related to the three disciplines (archaeology, art history, architecture). The journal is now published by the Ministero della Cultura and has a semiannual periodicity, it is subject to peer-review and maintains an ANVUR type A classification.

For issues 11 – 20 (2011-2013) Please contact the former publisher: De Luca Editori d’Arte