Nicknamed Italy’s “Little Provence,” Sancto Lucio de Coumboscuro is an isolated village in almost every ... we dig out our grandparents’ old oil lamps,” local shepherdess Agnes Garrone ...

Known as Dafen Oil Painting Village, the district is believed to be the largest mass producer of oil paintings in the world. Artists here manufacture some 60 per cent of the total global volume in ...

Italian photographer Susetta Bozzi documented the one-time farming village turned global art ... home of up to 60 percent of the world’s oil painting trade. Bozzi and her collaborator, a ...

capital of Central China's Hunan province, March 28, 2014. Over a hundred pieces of famous Italian oil paintings will be on display. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

Entering the village, one is greeted by a building emblazoned with the slogan, "World's oil paintings, Dafen, China." Art galleries line the streets and oil paintings, big and small, are ...