Every city has its own ghosts, and Florence certainly could not be the exception. There are stories about sightings of spirits in the Tuscan capital, like the one of Palazzo Budini-Gattai or Ginevra degli Almieri. The story we're going to tell you today is about one of the most famous:...
Anish Kapoor,
renowned British artist of Indian origin, has always had a close relationship
with Italy. He has exhibited works in several Italian museums, such as the
MAXXI in Rome and the Prada Foundation in Milan, he chose Venice to open his
namesake Foundation inside Palazzo Manfrin and he even...
The
Biennale internazionale d'arte
contemporanea di Firenze, also known as the Florence Biennale, was founded in 1997 by the artist Pasquale
Celona and his brother Piero and has been directed since 2015 by Jacopo Celona.
It is held at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, but also includes collateral
events...
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...
