You might have heard, a couple of weeks ago, the great crackling of fireworks that deafened Florence for 5 minutes. It was the spectacular performance of the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, on the occasion of the inauguration of his new exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery.
Flora Commedia was born from...
Those who watched the tv show Medici, were left wondering about the
real story of Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, the noblewoman considered to
have been the muse of Sandro Botticelli. In the episodes of the tv
series we see how Simonetta and Giuliano de Medici fall in love while
posing as...
We don't know much about the real identity of the artist whose exibition inaugurated yesterday at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, except that he started his activity as a street artist in Bristol around 1990 and he goes under the name of Bansky. Rings a bell?
Someone has speculated he is actually...
In Piazza Santissima Annunziata, the atmosphere is almost always very quiet, tourists tend to stay away from this part of the historic center, preferring the area of the nearby Academy of Fine Arts or the Duomo. It is precisely the scarce presence of people that gives this wide Florentine square...
The highly anticipated Marina Abramovic – The Cleaner exhibition inauguarted today at Palazzo Strozzi and will be open to visitors until January 20th.
There are several reasons because this is an event that you should not miss.
For starters, it is not only the first big retrospective dedicated to Marina...
Palazzo Pitti is certainly the largest palace in Florence, now home to priceless treasures, once home to the lords of the city, the Medici. We all know it as the residence of the Medici family, in fact, but its name reveals its true origins.
Luca Pitti, the archenemy of Cosimo...
We have said it before; the Stibbert Museum is a very unique place to visit. It probably won’t make your top 5 list of places to see in Florence, but that’s just because you don’t know what you’re missing!
Once the home of possibly the most eccentric man in town,...
"Attualità nel passato. La pittura colta di Pang Maokun"at Palazzo Medici Riccardi puts on display the works of one of the most important contemporary Chinese artists, currently holding the role of Rector at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.
The display, first solo exhibition of Pang Maokun in Italy, presents...
Until September 16th Villa Bardini will host the exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest masters of contemporary photography: Steve McCurry.
The retrospective entitled "Icons", counts 100 shots with which McCurry has immortalized the history of our times, made of war, poverty, sufferings but also a great deal of emotion,...
After Giuseppe Penone, Antony Gormley, Jan Fabre, and the Ytalia exhibition, this year is the turn of Gong, retrospective dedicated to Eliseo Mattiacci, one of the pioneers of Italian avant-garde of the 70’s, to occupy the battlements of the Forte Belvedere.
An exponent of Arte Povera who distinguisghed himself from...
New Flight to Solaris, which opened this week, is the new exhibition at the Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli in Florence that takes inspiration from the work of the Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky.
This is the first international exhibition of Moscow’s AZ Museum, the Soviet museum named after Anatoly Zverev, the main...
The Santa Maria Novella Church is one of the most beautiful churches
in Florence as well as one of the most important examples of Gothic
architecture in Tuscany, and yet, it is too often neglected by tourists,
drawn to more famous places of interest.
Do not make this mistake. You...
Palazzo Medici Riccardi hosts the new exhibition "I mondi di Calder", curated by Gianluca Marziani, curator and artistic director of Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive in Spoleto.
An exhibition dedicated to the American artist, who was particularly attached to the city of Spoleto. Here he spent some periods of his life...
The Abbey of San Miniato al Monte has just celebrated a thousand years since its foundation!
The church was built in honor of St. Miniato, the first martyr of Florence. He was allegedly an Armenian prince who was passing through Florence around the year 250. After refusing to venerate the...
The much anticipated Florence Experiment has finally opened to the public!
The project by Belgian artist Carsten Höller and Stefano Mancuso, taking place at Palazzo Strozzi, merges art and science in a unique and much fun experience.
It is not surprising that the two have decided to collaborate considering the...
A new modern art museum has opened in town: the Roberto Casamonti Collection.
Art dealer Roberto Casamonti, developed a passion for art as a child and in the course of his life acquired a vast number of art works of exceptional value that he never placed on the market.
Part...
Recientemente concluyó la restauración de la Capilla Capponi en la iglesia Santa Felicita, fundada por la Fundación Amici di Firenze. La obra que duró casi un año, se realizó en todo el complejo arquitectónico y las magníficas obras de arte que ahí se contienen.
Los visitantes podrán admirar los colores...
La cúpula de Brunelleschi, con su cubierta de tejas rojas y la nervadura blanca de mármol como contraste, es una de las obras arquitectónicas más características de Florencia. Admirada y conocida por su aspecto exterior, es en realidad una obra maestra de la arquitectura que resulta igualmente maravillosa vista desde...
Last week at Palazzo Strozzi opened another great temporary show, Dawn of a Nation – from Guttuso to Fontana and Schifano. The exhibition curated by Luca Massimo Barbero gives us an insight on Italy after World War II.
Eighty works by Italian masters such as Renato Guttuso, Lucio Fontana, Alberto...
Finding yourself in front of Florence’s breathtaking masterpieces such as the David of Michelangelo or Botticelli’s Primavera or even stepping inside the stunning Chapel of the Princes in San Lorenzo, can cause some serious dizziness. But what if what you felt was more than simple dizziness and excitement? What if...
As of March 1, 2018, the Uffizi ticket allows free entry into Florence’s Museum of Archaeology (MAF), so now is your chance to go pay a visit to its wonderful collection of ancient manufacts.
The museum, located in piazza Santissima Annunziata, inaugurated in 1870 in the buildings of the Cenacolo...
Una iglesia poco conocida en Florencia es la Iglesia de San Jacopo Sopr’Arno, un edificio de orígenes antiguos construido en estilo románico. Data del siglo X y XI, y le dio nombre a la aldea que fue construida a su alrededor, Borgo San Jacopo, en el Oltrarno florentino.
Giovanni Villani,...
Last week the Gucci Museum opened the doors of its freshly redesigned spaces; not merely a museum anymore, it is now called Gucci Garden, Alessandro Michele’s new eclectic creation.
Situated in the 14th-century Palazzo della Mercanzia in Florence, Gucci Garden is a bazar-like museum where you can find a bit...
In the XIV century, especially after the Black Plague of 1348, a rediscovered desire for life and consequently for luxury and splendor began to spread throughout Europe. In this period fashion as we know it today is born, and the quality of Florentine textiles reached a level of excellence as...
Since December 2011, during the Christmas period light games illuminate and color the façades of the historical buildings of Florence. It’s the F-Light Florence Light Festival, that inaugurated every year with the lighting of the great Christmas tree on 8 December in Piazza Duomo and spread out in more than...
Trades between Florence and the Flanders began in the 15th century. Many Florentine families commissioned works to Flemish that once arrived here in Florence, greatly influenced local artists.
In addition to the works, many artists from Flanders also arrved, many of whom were involved in the Medicean Tapestry Manufactory founded...
What do we know about the story of the creation of Michelangelo’s David, one of the world’s greatest masterpieces?
As one could expect it all started with a piece of stone. A huge 5-meter-high block of marble stone that other artists had already attempted to sculpt before, giving up almost...
The Street Art has arrived to Florence. The exhibition currently on view at Palazzo Medici Riccardi “MADE IN NEW YORK. KEITH HARING, Paolo Buggiani and co. The true origin of Street Art” will remain open until February the 6th showing how this contemporary form of art, thanks to its immediacy,...
“The Japanese Renaissance. Nature in painted screens from the XV to the XVII centuriey” the exhibition dedicated to Japanese art that inaugurated at the Uffizi on the 3rd of October will go on until January the 7th.
The display consists of folding screens and sliding doors, coming from temples and...
The spaces of the Strozzina in Palazzo Strozzi will host a new exhibition until January 21: “Radical Utopies. Beyond architecture”.
On display 320 artworks by Archizoom, Remo Buti, 9999, Gianni Pettena, Superstudio, UFO,
Zziggurat and many others, that include design objects, clothing, jewelry, ceramics, photos, collages, models, videos, and installations....
¡Grandes noticias en el mundo del arte! El “Salvator Mundi”, la última pintura de Leonardo da Vinci que todavía está en manos de un coleccionista privado, se subastará el 15 de noviembre.
En el momento de su descubrimiento en 2010 la pintura fue definida como el mayor descubrimiento del S....
Hace unos días se inauguró en el Palazzo Strozzi la muestra “Il 500 a Firenze”, tercer y último capítulo de un ciclo de muestras que inició con Bronzino en el 2010 y Pontormo e Rosso Fiorentino en el 2014.
Mientras las dos exposiciones anteriores están concentradas en tres de los...
THE LEGENDOnce upon a time in Florence, lived a
Young man called Michele who dedicated his life to his work and to
charity works he did around the neighborhood, he had such a good heart
that people had started to call him “San Michele”.
He owned a stable and horses...
Precioso, raro y bellísimo, el lapislázuli siempre ha sido un favorito entre los artistas para representar el cielo y el mar en las obras de arte, y la muestra “Lapislazzuli, Magia del Blu” en el Museo degli Argenti de Florencia está dedicada precisamente a los objetos de arte realizados con...
A pocos pasos de la Plaza de la Libertà, en una calle que toma nombre del primer Papa de la familia Medici, Leone X (famoso por haber excomulgado a Martín Lutero en 1521), surge una bellísima e inesperada joya arquitectónica. Estamos hablando de la Iglesia Ortodoxa rusa de la Natividad...
Por sorprendente que pueda parecer, dado su nombre galo, el pintor italo-británico Llewelyn Lloyd en realidad nació en Livorno.
Es él el protagonista de la nueva muestra en Villa Bardini, el lugar ideal para sus pinturas luminosas y coloridas, que reúne 62 obras centradas en la representación de paisajes toscanos....
Florencia finalmente ha aceptado y acogido con los brazos abiertos el arte contemporánea y las muestras recientes son la prueba. Precisamente como “Placeres Desconocidos” (Piaceri Sconosciuti en italiano) del artista contemporáneo Glen Brown, inaugurada recientemente en el museo Bardini.
El famoso artista británico, ha tenido muestras pasadas en Londes, Viena,...
To celebrate the 90th Anniversary of Salvatore Ferragamo’s return to Italy from America, the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum has put on another great exhibition, that merges fashion and art to transport us back to the 1927 Florence.
Carlo Sisi curated the exhibition that opened in May, entitled “1927 - The Return...
Desde este verano, fue posible acceder a la Torre de San Niccolò, a la Torre de la Zecca Vecchia y a Porta Romana, que normalmente no están abiertas al público, y ahora abren algunos días.
La Torre de San Niccolò se abrió el día de la fiesta de San Giovanni,...
Todos conocel en Mercato Nuovo de Florencia, y la famosa loggia del Porcellino, construida en el 1547 en un proyecto de Giovanni Battista Tasso.
Aquí, a pocos pasos del Ponte Vecchio, originalmente tenía lugar comercio de seda y objetos preciosos, pero con los años esto ha cambiado. Desde el S.XIX...
Hasta el 1 de Octubre, Florencia se transforma de la cuna del Renacimiento a la cuna del Arte Contemporáneo, alojando la muestra “Ytalia. Energía, pensamiento, belleza. Todo está conectado”.
La muestra toma su nombre de la palabra “Ytalia” escrita al final del 1200 por Cimabue al margen de una pintura...
En el 1737, mientras con su último heredero Gian Gastone, se extinguía la dinastía Medici, el Marqués Carlo Ginori fundaba la Manifattura di Doccia, hoy conocida como Manifattura Richard Ginori.
Es la manufactura más antigua de este tipo en Italia, en donde han continuado por casi 3 siglos produciendo las...
Pongamos que vinieron a Florencia atraidos por el inmenso patrimonio artístico, histórico y cultural de la ciudad. Pongamos que ya hayan visitado todos los museos e iglesias y hecho fotografías de las espléndidas panorámicas que la ciudad ofrece.
Ahora consideremos que el verano se acerca y que se siente la...
El Museo Stibbert es probablemente uno de los museos más excéntricos de Florencia, y esto podría tener que ver con su fundador, ya que era un hombre bastante excéntrico.
Tuvo muchos intereses, y pasó varios años viajando en Europa y creando contactos con comerciantes de antigüedades. Comenzó a coleccionar trajes,...
Relacionado a la ausencia de luz, el negro siempre ha sido asociado a la sombra, con los secretos y misterios, con el mal y el pecado, el vacío y la muerte.Sin embargo, esta acepción negativa frecuentemente se transforma cuando se habla de arte, y sobre todo de moda, áreas en...
Previously put on display in London, New York and Dubai, a replica of the monumental Arch of Palmyra, has now been placed in Piazza Signoria.
It's one of the signs that Florence prepares for the G7 of Culture, that will be held in the city on March 30 and 31,...
The Across Art and Fashion exhibition is divided into 5 different venues: the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, the National Central Library of Florence, the Uffizi Gallery, the Marino Marini Museum and the Textile Museum of Prato.
At the center of the entire project is the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum. Here the display...
The VISIONS FROM THE NORTH exhibition (Novecento Museum, 4 March 2017 - 21 May 2017), curated by art historian Eero Epner, will host for the first time in Florence, works from one of the largest private collections of contemporary northeastern European paintings.
The paintings from the Enn Kunila's collection trace...
Bill Viola comes to Florence. Palazzo Strozzi Foundation presents the new exhibition “Bill Viola, Electronic Renaissance”.The exhibit wants to celebrate the master of contemporary video art. It lasts from March 10 to July 23 in Palazzo Strozzi.Bill Viola’s works will animate the Piano Nobile and The Strozzina. The exhibition underlines...
