Florence is a city that has always done things
a little in its own way, as demonstrated by the fact that for 168 years it
celebrated the New Year on a different day than the rest of Italy.
The Florentine New
Year is celebrated on 25 March, the date
corresponding...
A
rocket welcomes visitors entering the Reaching for the Stars exhibition in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi, and prepares them for
the journey to the stars of contemporary art.
A journey that also wishes to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in
Turin, one of the...
Many know the Orticoltura gardens because of the flower fair held here every year
and the majestic Rooster’s Tepidarium,
the large white iron greenhouse that dominates the surrounding landscape.However, not everyone knows of the existence of a
second garden overlooking the Orticoltura gardens, often frequented only by
residents, couples and...
Alberto
Giacometti and Lucio Fontana duet
in Giacometti – Fontana. La ricerca
dell’assoluto (“The search for the absolute”), the exhibition hosted
until June 4th in the Sala delle Udienze and in the Sala dei Gigli of the Museum
of Palazzo Vecchio.
These two pioneers of 20th century art, one of...
Light,
Gaze, Presence, is the title of the exhibition of the Iranian artist Y.Z.
Kami, that takes place in different spaces of the city: Museo Novecento, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo degli Innocenti
and, exceptionally, in the millenary Abbey
of San Miniato al Monte.The Iranian-American artist offers us 24 works...
Art has
always been the means through which mankind gave a tangible form to emotions,
desires and fears. Therefore it does not surprise that love, being perhaps the
strongest emotions of all and what every human craves, became one of the main
themes throughout the history of art. Everyone loves...
Eleonora di Toledo and the invention of the
Medici court in Florence, is the current
exhibition at Palazzo Pitti, curated by Bruce Edelstein, art historian and
professor at New York University Florence, which pays homage to the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. Spanish noblewoman of great charisma, Eleonora of...
The Uffizi Galleries pay homage to the expressionist
painter, Rudolf Levy, with a retrospective that traces the tormented life of
the artist.After fighting in World War I, Levy moved to Berlin, where
he held his first solo exhibition in 1922. The nightmare of Nazi persecution
led him to travel the...
On January 26th, in Florence we celebrate San Zanobi (Saint Zenobius) so you might see a garland of flowers at the base of the column in Piazza Duomo - if you ever even noticed the column in the first place.
Many people, including Florentines, pass by it every day not...
The ancestors of pizzaPizza, the most famous Made in Italy product in the world, has very ancient origins. Its first ancestor dates back to the time of the Ancient Egypt, when yeast was discovered, a fundamental ingredient for creating the dough for bread and focaccia which were then filled or...
