Along the old provincial
road to Siena, at the top of the San Gaggio hill, there is a beautiful
residential area, a network of narrow streets that lead to villas in the
countryside. All very elegant but one is different from the others: Villa Bayon. Commissioned in 1963 by
the...
Everyone knows Gian Lorenzo Bernini as the greatest
exponent of Baroque sculpture,
author of works of incredible beauty. Certainly a man of great passion, an
emotion that he skilfully transmitted through his art. But few know about his darker side,
and how this great passion of his led him to...
From the Cure underpass,
we see another work that we could call Stay Tuned! A snake-king with a crown
suddenly emerges from the wall and throws himself at an apparently unsuspecting
mouse.
The burning eyes are the
signature of the author, Ninjaz, very active in Florence, part of the...
Eastern suburbs of
Florence, in Rovezzano, a public park with a large villa in the center, Villa Favard (not to be confused with
the homonymous villa in via Curtatone, home of the Polimoda Fashion School).
The history of this place
begins at the end of 1200, in a Florence...
November seems to be historically one of the rainiest and deadliest months of the year in Florence, as past events remind us. To be precise, November 4th appears to be a very unfortunate date. Every year, if it’s been raining heavily in the days before this date, we start thinking...
Florence is full of
mysteries and there is no shortage among them of stories about ghosts, witches
and devils. Here is an unbelievable story, perhaps the most famous one, and
what makes it so disturbing is that it is actually a true story, although
several versions exist today.
It is...
This fun work from the Cure
Underpass seems to be a self-portrait. The pencil brandished nervously and the
tongue tightened between the lips, like when one busy doing something that requires precision and attention and tenses up, just like this writer
at work drawing.
The mural is very large,
the...
Built in a cloister of
the Basilica of San Lorenzo there is
one of Florence’s invaluable treasures: The
Medicean-Laurentian Library.
The complex was designed
by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1519 for the cardinal Giulio de Medici,
who later became Pope Clement VII. Michelangelo supervised the works in person
until 1534, when...
About 60,000 people transit
through the Santa Maria Novella station
in Florence every year, and yet, not everyone notices the huge 25-meter fresco placed on the south
wall of the large arrivals and departures hall.
A work created with an
ancient technique, for which Italian and in particular Florentine art...
The grottesca (or grotesque, from the italian grotta, cave) is a wall
decoration characterized by a multitude of hybrid creatures, and zoomorphic
figures depicted within a symmetrical decoration with naturalistic elements.
The decoration appears airy and light thanks to the slender style of the
figures. In Florence we have very...
