Until
February 4, 2024, in the rooms on the ground floor of the Museo Novecento and in Palazzo
Vecchio it will be possible to admire over 30 works by one of the most
important artists of contemporary art, Cecily
Brown.The
exhibition entitled “Temptations, Torments, Trials and
Tribulations” displays
paintings, drawings...
The
fourth Saturday in September sees the Carro Matto (Crazy Cart) parade
through the streets of the historic center of Florence, a tradition that has
its roots in fourteenth-century Florence. At
the time, the wine mostly came from the Chianti area, now known all over the
world for the production...
The
style of Fernando Botero Angulo,
characterized by subjects with dilated and full forms, of caricatural
appearance, is absolutely unmistakable.The
artist developed this style in the 1950s after painting a "fat"
mandolin in a still life with mandolin. Since then he will continue to paint
men, women, animals and inanimate...
Walking down the streets
of Florence you might have seen them: tiny arched shaped doors on the walls of
buildings in the city center. Many wonder what they are, even some florentines
don't know their history.
They are called "buchette
del vino" (litterally "wine holes"), closed with little
wooden doors...
In
via Sant'Antonino 11 in Florence, there is a building that immediately catches
the eye of passers-by as it features decidedly unusual decorative elements. It
is Palazzo Viviani, otherwise known
as the "Palazzo dei cartelloni” (Billboards Palace), due to the enormous
epigraphs with which the facade is decorated. Among these...
Spiagge Bianche are a stretch of
about five kilometers of white sand bathed by beautiful clear waters, in the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo
in Tuscany, between Rosignano Solvay and Vada. A
postcard landscape that attracts many people from all over Tuscany, but also
tourists who have heard of this perfectly...
At
the moment of his death, English entrepreneur and collector, Frederick Stibbert
(1838-1906) left to the municipality of Florence his villa containg a spectacular
collection of more than 50,000 objects: armors, weapons, porcelains, furniture,
jewelry, paintings, sculptures and much more. This property included also a
beautiful park with sculptures, little...
Another
major monographic exhibition is underway at Palazzo Strozzi until 3 September 2023, and this time it brings us
in contact with over thirty works by Chinese artist, Yan Pei-Ming: Yan Pei-Ming. Painting Histories.Born
and raised in Shanghai, he emigrated to France at the age of 20, enrolling at
the...
Florentine zuccotto is a
semifreddo liqueur dessert invented in the mid-sixteenth century by Bernardo Buontalenti, the same
Buontalenti to whom we also owe the invention gelato. It
is also called Caterina de' Medici’s
Helmet, since it seems that originally, to make this dessert, the helmets
worn by the infantry at...
The
Medici tapestries from the cycle “The return of Joseph, the prince of dreams”
are back in the Salone dei Duecento, exhibited in rotation in five exhibition
cycles. The twenty tapestries in the series are displayed, four at a time,
according to their original location in the hall of Palazzo...
