Looking
up while busy admiring the spectacular statues of the Loggia dei Lanzi including the statue of Perseus holding the head of
Medusa (1555) by Benvenuto
Cellini, you might have missed to notice the beautiful bas-relief placed
right at the base of this statue.This
square bronze bas-relief depicting
an episode...
The world of art is historically a world dominated by men, very little has been said about women artists compared to men artists, but this does not mean that there have not been women who have left their permanent mark in the history of art. Today we want to remember...
After
almost five years of closure and important redevelopment works, the Specola Museum in Florence reopened to
the public with four days of free admission, offered to celebrate also the
250th anniversary of its foundation.Inaugurated
on 21 February 1775 as the Imperial and Royal Museum of Physics and Natural
History...
On the 18th of February Florence celebrates a very special woman, the one to whom we owe the salvaging of our art heritage: Anna Maria Luisa dei Medici, also known as the Electress Palatine.
Anna Maria was the daughter of Cosimo III and Margherita Luisa d'Orleans. Theirs was a very...
Between
the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Paris was
the center of the art world, it was the Belle
Époque and almost all the new artistic trends started from the French
capital.Photography
and cinema gave a new cut to images and allowed us...
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...
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...
Raffaello Sanzio died
very young, he was only 37, but in his short life he managed to establish
himself as one of the most outstanding artists of the Renaissance, capable of masterfully interpreting a timeless ideal
of beauty and harmony.One
of his greatest masterpieces is the Madonna della Seggiola, painted...
The
concept of the Museum of Illusions
was born in 2015 in Zagreb, Croatia, and was then exported to various cities
around the world, also arriving in Italy, first in Milan then in Florence and
Rome.The
museum has opened inside Palazzo
Tornaquinci Della Stufa, a historic building, in via Borgo...
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...
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...
Creator of visionary, ingenious,
impossible worlds, M.C. Escher was one of the most original artists of
the 20th century. His woodcuts, lithographies and engravings have now become
part of our collective imaginary and still manage to fascinate and amaze today.
The great Florentine exhibition, hosted in the halls
of the...
The
Chimera of Arezzo, was found on
November 15, 1553 during the
excavation works for the construction of the Medici fortification walls, near
the Porta San Lorentino.
Cosimo I de' Medici, great
collector and art estimator, fell in love with this work so deeply that he decided
to personally take...
One
of the most important Florentine exhibitions of this season is that of the
Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, which can be visited at Palazzo Strozzi until
January 22, 2023. Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo is the largest exhibition ever held
in Italy by the artist and collects historic and site-specific...
Passione
Novecento. From
Paul Klee to Damien Hirst inaugurates at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, an
exhibition that brings together 38 works
of Twentieth-century art belonging to private collections that the public
will be able to admire together for the first time.
Among
the big artists on display we find Paul
Klee,...
September
8, 2022, one of the greatest icons of the 20th century, Queen Elizabeth II of England, dies.
She
is perhaps the most famous contemporary
personality in the world, certainly known by anyone globally. Everyone
recognizes the Queen's face, her brightly colored outfits and her hats.
She
was a woman...
If
you pay a visit to the Basilica of San
Lorenzo these days, you will come across a giant over 5 meters high leaning against the side of the church.
With his mighty muscles, he has already "supported" the Medici Palace
in Seravezza, the Cathedral of Pietrasanta and Carrara, the...
August 3, 1944, Florence is
still occupied by the Nazis. It’s been almost a year, the Allies are
expected to send help any day now, and rumor has it that, knowing this, the Germans
want to destroy the Florentine bridges to cut off access routes.
On
July 30, everyone who...
Forte Belvedere opens its spaces to Rä
di Martino, a young contemporary artist, and to her solo exhibition
entitled Play It Again, a
project of Museo Novecento curated
by Sergio Risaliti.
Through a selection of
works from 2014 to today, that includes installations, video art and
photographs, Play it again...
The
Double
Portrait of the Dukes of Urbino is one of the most famous portraits of
the Renaissance, preserved today in the Uffizi
Gallery.
This
diptych was commissioned in 1465 to
Piero della Francesca, by Federico di Montefeltro, Lord of Urbino.
Represented
in profile, we see the two spouses...
“Painting is based solely on the law of knowing how
to find the right colour tone and getting i tinto its proper space.” – Oscar Ghiglia
The
new exhibition at Palazzo Medici
Riccardi features a beloved artist of the twentieth century: Oscar Ghiglia (1876-1945).
"Oscar
Ghiglia, The years of the...
An
extraordinary exhibition, the one about Donatello
entitled Donatello, the Renaissance, which can be visited until 31 July
2022 at Palazzo Strozzi and the Bargello Museum. Over 130 works
including sculptures, paintings and drawings, including some unique loans,
never granted before, and distributed in two locations of excellence.
Donato...
When people talk about Michelangelo's Pietà, they usually mean the Pietà di San Pietro, or Vatican
Pietà, one of his most renoknown works, but this is not the only sculptural
group of this type that he ever made. In fact, he made three, and now for the
first time they...
Quant’è bella giovinezza,
che si fugge tuttavia!
chi vuol esser lieto, sia:
di doman non c’è certezza.
"How
beautiful is youth, / though quickly it does flee! / be happy if you want to: /
for tomorrow may not come"
This is what Lorenzo
il Magnifico wrote in the opening...
Florence
is a place rich in history and art that tourists from all over the world come
to admire, transforming the city into a meeting place of many different
cultures. People travel to here from all over the world not only to see the amazing
art masterpieces scattered all over...
The
Venus of Urbino, or simply Titian's Venus, is one of the most
famous paintings in the history of art, admired as much as discussed, it was a
source of inspiration for many artists.
Guidobaldo
II della Rovere di Urbino, commissioned this painting from the Venetian painter
with the intention...
“I love the idea that painting,
pointless technologically, can still hypnotise and seduce us.” Says artist
Anj Smith, a statement that leaves
space for reflection, not only about painting, but art itself.
Art is created and consumed because human beings crave to express themselves,
to look at something beautiful, something...
Florence
welcomes in five of its major museums the works of one of the most
important living artists in the world, Jenny
Saville. This is a huge exhibition project, curated by Sergio Risaliti,
director of the Museo Novecento, the
fulcrum of the widespread exhibition.
Here
we find about 100 works...
Benozzo Gozzoli (c.
1421 - 1497) was a Florentine painter, a pupil of Lorenzo Ghiberti and Beato
Angelico, known mostly for the frescoes in the Magi Chapel in Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
It
was to him that Cosimo and Piero de
'Medici commissioned the frescoes for the chapel, a work that...
Villa Bardini
reopens after two years, with the exhibition entitled Galileo Chini and European Symbolism. The exhibition, dedicated to
the greatest Italian interpreter of Liberty
modernism and one of the major exponents of Symbolism at European level, focuses on the artist's first twenty
years of career, which made him famous...
After
two years of restorations carried out by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, we can return to admire the
Terrace of Geographic Maps of the Uffizi, a place rich in history
from which visitors can enjoy a beautiful view of the city.
Giorgio Vasari had designed this
space...
A
Christmas tradition that has Italian roots is that of the Nativity scene,
"Presepe" in Italian, a
display of objects and figures representing the birth of Jesus. The term “presepe” derives from the Latin “praesaepe”, meaning manger, trough, or
an enclosed area for sheep and goats.
The
baby Jesus, Mary...
The Medici Chapels complex is part of the Basilica of San Lorenzo and includes the New Sacristy designed by Michelangelo in 1519, and the grandiose Chapel of the Princes built in the seventeenth century.
Hard to decide which space is the most beautiful, the first emblem of formal purity, the...
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...
The Renaissance palace where the Odeon is located, now called Palazzo dello Strozzino, was a property
of the wealthy Strozzi family, this
was true for the majority of the buildings that surrounded Piazza Strozzi and
for those in the street that is now via Monalda. It does not come as...
The series of exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art at Palazzo Strozzi continues,
this time it is the turn of the very famous Jeff Koons, who had already been in Florence in 2015 with the much
discussed golden sculpture Pluto and
Proserpina, displayed in front of Palazzo Vecchio.
Jeff Koons. Shine...
The fish market was once located
in today's Lungarno degli Archibugieri, then Piazza del Pesce, right next to Ponte Vecchio. In 1565, on the occasion of the marriage between the son of Grand Duke
Cosimo I, Francesco, and the Archduchess of Austria Giovanna of Austria, the
famous Vasari Corridor was...
One of the most
well-hidden churches in all of Florence is probably Santo Stefano al Ponte.
However, the name suggests where we can find it: in the small Piazza Santo Stefano,
near Ponte Vecchio.
Founded before 1116, the
year in which the first documentations mention it, the church of Santo...
We are in Porta Romana, south of Florence, where
the fourteenth-century walls are still standing, surviving the urban
restructuring by Giuseppe Poggi in 1865. After the monumental door, a small
square opens up, called Piazza della
Calza. The name derives from the church and the convent that overlook the
square....
Pietrasanta is a small town 100 km from Florence, near the sea and at
the foot of the Apuan Alps, from where the marble,
that all Tuscan monuments have been built with, has been extracted for
centuries. It has always been frequented by many artists, in the past even by...
The monumental installation by Giuseppe Penone entitled Abete, which has been in Piazza
della Signoria since March, has already been talked about. A majestic tree,
over 22 meter high, in steel and bronze.
The installation of it in the square was only the preview of the
artist's exhibition that is...
After a year of pandemic
and social distancing, Forte Belvedere reopens with Ieri, oggi, domani.
Italia autoritratto allo specchio, a project of the Museo Novecento
born under the artistic direction of Sergio Risaliti.
The project includes two photographic exhibitions, open simultaneously at the
Forte Belvedere from 25 June to 10...
On June 24, Florence
celebrates its patron saint, San Giovanni, but this has not always been the
case. Back in the day, when the religion was still pagan, the city was devoted
to the god Mars. Many believe that
the current Baptistery of San Giovanni
was built from the ruins...
Red, black, brown, white and ochre were part of the color palette artists used in cave paintings. The first pigments, invented about 40,000 years ago, were a combination of soil, animal fat, burnt charcoal, and chalk, but since then, the number of colors available to the artists has continued to...
American Art
1961-2001
concludes the trilogy dedicated to American art at Palazzo Strozzi, which began
in 2012 with the exhibition Americani a Firenze. Sargent e gli
impressionisti del Nuovo Mondo and continued in 2016 with Da Kandinsky a
Pollock. La grande arte dei Guggenheim.
The exhibition retraces the history of...
This time the title "Beyond
the Renaissance" should be interpreted as "Renaissance beyond itself", that is, at the top of its
idea of the world and of the rediscovery of classical culture. The facade of
Palazzo Rucellai, designed by Leon Battista Alberti and completed in 1465, is
celebrated as one...
There is no better place to find inspiration for your art projects than in the Rose Garden, just under Piazzale Michelangelo.
This garden was created in 1865 by Giuseppe Poggi, who also designed the piazzale, and it houses a collection of about 400 varieties of roses, lemons, and other plants...
The Bargello, former seat of the
Podestà and prison where the condemned suffered the most terrible tortures, preserves many memories linked to Dante
and pays him homage with an exhibition and important restorations, in the 700th
anniversary of his death.
The exhibition entitled Honorable and ancient citizen of Florence. The...
The Manifattura Tabacchi: a district of 16
buildings on an area of 100,000 square meters, next to the Cascine Park. Pure
modernist rationalist architecture, designed by architects Giovanni Bartoli and
Pier Luigi Nervi in 1933, completed in 1940. According to modernist architectural
canons, the structure had to be functional to...
Leonardo Ricci died in 1994, construction began in 2000 and
the work was inaugurated in 2012.It is the second largest Palace of Justice in Italy, after the
one in Turin, covers 3 hectares of land and has a useful area of 126,000
square meters. The measurements are: 230 m by...
Is it possible to find an oasis of peace and quiet right in the middle of the city traffic? In Florence, you can.
If you venture outside the historical center, in Piazza Donatello, you will find the English Cemetery. Originally called Protestant Cemetery of Porta a Pinti, it was renamed...
In Italy as in many other Western countries, comics are still considered by most to be a product for children, as we are used to the fact that storytelling with pictures is found in fairy tales and children’s books. In particular the Japanese manga, that uses images often consisting of...
Once again, Palazzo Strozzi decided to donate to the public an artwork that is visible from the outside, in compliance with anti-contagion regulations, an installation that can be enjoyed by anyone crossing Piazza degli Strozzi. JR, one of the most famous contemporary artists in the world, is the author of...
Whether installed to celebrate an event, a personality of relevance for the city or just to decorate a piazza, Italian cities have always loved their fountains. Florence is no exception. There are many beautiful fountains scattered around the city, so let's see some of the most famous and unique fountains...
“Tanto gentile e tanto onesta parela donna mia quand’ella altrui saluta,ch’ogne lingua deven tremando mutae gli occhi no l’ardiscon di guardare.”(“So kind and so honest she looksmy woman, when she greets others,that every tongue becomes, shaking, mute,and eyes dare not look at her.”)Thus Dante Alighieri introduces us to his beloved...
The
restoration of the Church of San Giorgio dello Spirito Santo alla Costa - once again the seat of a neighborhood parish - financed by the Gianmaria
Buccellati Foundation under the direction of the Superintendence of Fine Arts
of Florence, has been completed.We are in Costa San Giorgio, one of...
You might have noticed that lions are everywhere in Florence. Have you wondered why?
They are guarding Palazzo Vecchio and the Loggia de Lanzi, they are on the weathervane on top of the Arnolfo Tower, they are represented in coat of arms, in paintings, and even the bases of lamplights...
The San Lorenzo Market or Central Market is famous all over the world and
frequented by anyone who visits Florence. Outside there are stalls for souvenirs,
clothing, items made with leather and fabrics, inside groceries on the ground floor,
restaurants and gastronomies on the first floor.The
building is also a...
The Orticoltura Garden was established for
botanical scientific experiments in 1859 by the Georgofili Academy, an
association founded in 1753, in the Enlightenment climate, for the study of
agricultural techniques. Vineyards, fruit trees, vegetables and eccentric and
rare ornamental plants were planted in the area. In 1876 the whole park...
Florence is universally considered
the city of art and hosts many universities, schools and art institutions, but
why doesn't it have a museum or a center of contemporary art to accommodate
large-scale events like other big Italian cities? Certainly its efforts are
mainly aimed at cultivating the past, both culturally...
Not only Renaissance, other times, other
architectures --- The VILLINO UZIELLI.
The original construction was built in 1870 on
commission of Guido Uzielli, a wealthy banker. The building was part of the
urban structure of the area according to Giuseppe Poggi's plan of 1865 Firenze
Capitale, when the residences of...
ANTONIO POSSENTI (Lucca, 1933 -
2016). Just a few words to mention the artists who animated the Tuscan, and especially Florentine, art scene in recent decades. Possenti, an autodidact, came to painting through the fascination of the magic
of drawing and illustration. After an initial “pink-blue Picassian” period, he
came...
This tower has the honor of being
the oldest building in Florence, miraculously remaining in its original
appearance. Built in the 6th century AD, almost surely by the Byzantines during
the war with the Goths (535 - 553), it was part of the second smaller city
walls, after the Roman...
This
garden is 100 meters far from the Duomo Square, just in the center. It is part
of the large Oblate complex, owned by the Municipality of Florence since 1936,
which houses the Municipal Library and various cultural and academic
institutions. The building was the first Florentine public hospital, founded...
Woe to speak ill of Florence to a Florentine,
you could trigger a very heated discussion. Florentines have always been known
for their patriotic spirit, proud of their city and their origins. We can't
blame them after all, considering that in the past Florence has really played a
key role...
Florence too has a triumphal arch like Paris, even if few
people notice it, as it is isolated in a sea of traffic, in Piazza della
Libertà. Any time of the day, gas and noise prevent passers-by from stopping
for more than a few seconds, just long enough to wait...
Admiring a work of art
and understanding a work of art are two very different things. Of course,
understanding art is not easy, but at least as far as the works of the past are
concerned, it helps that the artists often used a few recurring themes. Knowing
at least...
We very often talk about Brunelleschi's
spectacular Dome - an unrivaled architectural enterprise- the largest masonry
dome ever built to date. Sometimes, however, we forget the other architectural
masterpiece that sits right next to it: Giotto's
Bell Tower!
It was July 18, 1334 when Giotto began to lay the...
Built in 1911 by the architect
Giovanni Michelazzi (1879 - 1920), it is considered one of the most significant
Italian Art Nouveau buildings, certainly the most interesting in Florence.
Michelazzi was a very refined architect, even if unfortunately he
designed very few works, committing suicide in 1920 at the age...
These are certainly difficult times to travel and fully enjoy the beauty of
a city like Florence. Especially because much of what it has to offer is
enclosed within those very precious jewelry boxes that are its museums and
churches.
If you prefer to avoid as much as possible to...
It was November 27, 1922, when Howard Carter
discovered the tomb - sealed and in perfect conditions - of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Made pharaoh at 9 years
old and died at 19, of Tutankhamun it is still unknown the cause of death,
which is assumed to have occurred after a fall...
Florence is the place where
Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years ago, planned to fly using machines of his own
invention. And it is precisely here that Tomás
Saraceno decided to bring his flying spheres today, "aerosolar"
balloons capable of flying without the use of fossil fuels, but only thanks to...
On the wall of Palazzo Vecchio, behind the statue of Hercules and Cacus
by Baccio Bandinelli, you will notice, if you look closely, the face of a man
engraved in stone.
According to the legend, Michelangelo Buonarroti himself is the author
of this artwork.
Michelangelo was an excellent artist, but...
A golden shield with five red balls, and
a blue one decorated with three golden lilies. You must have seen it everywhere
in Florence, since it is the Medici coat of arms.
The Medici blazon underwent inexplicable changes during
most of the fifteenth century, in particular in regards to the...
The Fortezza
da Basso, or fortress of San Giovanni Battista, today the main Florentine
exhibition venue, has a long history, which began after the experience of the
siege of 1529.
At the time, Duke Alessandro de’ Medici
commissioned to the artists and architects Pier Francesco da Viterbo and
Antonio da...
Finally, after
30 years of restoration, the 3 monumental doors of the Baptistery of Saint John
have been brought together on display at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
The first
restoration work on the portals, carried out by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure,
began in 1990 with the removal of...
After Klimt, Monet, Van Gogh
and Leonardo, it is René Magritte's turn to invade the baroque spaces of the
church of Santo Stefano al Ponte. The multimedia exhibition dedicated to the
Belgian artist, master of surrealism, will last until March 1st: Inside
Magritte, conceived by Crossmedia Group and Hepco, directed...
One of the
greatest works of art created by a woman in the Renaissance has recently been
restored: the last Supper by Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588), painted in the
mid-16th century. A four-years restoration, funded through a crowdfunding
campaign by AWA (Advancing Women Artists Foundation) and carried out by
Rossella...
VISIO. Moving
Images After Post-Internet, will be on display at the Strozzina of Palazzo Strozzi.only until December 1st .
The exhibition brings together and promotes the
works of 12 young artists, all under 35, who participated in the VIII edition
of VISIO. European Program on Artists ’Moving Images, a project promoted...
The
protagonist of one of the most read books in the world becomes the protagonist
of an exhibition at Villa Bardini titled Enigma
Pinocchio. From Giacometti to LaChapelle, open until March 22nd. Pinocchio,
character born from the pen of Carlo Lorenzini, continues to fascinate us in
his topicality, and has...
Every two years Florence promotes
the talents of contemporary art though the Florence Biennale, opening this year
on October 18th.The exhibition, in its XII edition,
will be accompanied as always by a rich program of events such as conferences,
exhibitions and performances.Over 470 artists and 200 designers
will be present,...
A year after Marina Abramovich, another woman
becomes protagonist at Palazzo Strozzi: Natalia Goncharova, one of the main
representatives of the Russian avant-garde, and first female artist to be established
internationally.
Versatile and talented woman, Natalia was a painter, costume designer,
illustrator, graphic designer, scenographer, decorator, stylist, film actress and...
During the
summer, strange structures appeared in Florentine squares: a dodecahedron in piazza
della Signoria containing a mulberry tree, a hexahedron (or cube) in piazza
Bambini di Beslan, a tetrahedron in Piazza Stazione and an icosahedron in
Piazza Santa Maria Novella.
They are part of the exhibition that
has opened...
Until October 20th, Forte Belvedere
hosts two important Italian artists: Massimo Listri, with the exhibition A
perfect day, and Davide Rivalta, with My land, in a project conceived by Sergio
Risaliti, promoted by the Municipality of Florence and organized by Mus.e.
Massimo Listri, known worldwide for
the conceptual and...
It is
wonderful to stroll down the streets of the historic center of Florence and
enjoying the city from every point of view, but during the summer months, being
able to bear the stifling heat that grips the Tuscan capital can be difficult.
Fortunately, many
are the museums where to...
They stand out among the tidy hedges of the Boboli Gardens like clumps of coagulated magma, like rocks eroded and smoothed by water, like desert rose crystals, like stalagmites, like strange primitive flowers and shapes free in space. Many are the images evoked by the sculptures of British artist Tony...
This
year we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Cosimo I de Medici
(1519-1574), the first Grand Duke of Tuscany. Son of the condottiere Giovanni
de 'Medici, known as Giovanni delle Bande Nere, and Maria Salviati, he became
lord of Florence when he was only 17, but was...
The new site-specific installation that made appeared a few weeks ago in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi is truly a triumph of color. A series of 12 hammocks joined together form a huge rocking bed that will remain available to anyone who wants to participate in the experience, until July...
Coming out polished from a two-year restoration, Sala degli Elementi reopens in Palazzo Vecchio, part of the Quartiere degli Elementi where each room is dedicated to a mythological divinity to which corresponds a character of the Medici family. The hall, included in the private quarters of the Grand Duke Cosimo I, was...
In the second half of the Nineteenth Century, after Florence had become the capital of Italy, the city changed its appearence due to the work of architect Giuseppe Poggi, in charge of the so-called urban Restoration. The city walls were demolished, the viali (avenues) were created inspired by Parisians boulevards,...
Once again the art collection of the CR Firenze Foundation reopens to the public. A collection of hidden treasures that can be visited free of charge, by reservation only on weekends until December 2019. Not an exhibition, but an exclusive visit to the Ente Cassa di Risparmio of Florence head...
The Fontana del Nettuno was finally inaugurated after a two-year restoration, generously funded by the Ferragamo fashion house.
In 1559 Cosimo I de Medici announced a competition to design the first public fountain in Florence, which thanks to the construction of a new aqueduct would bring water to the city...
Drawings, sculptures and highly refined jacquard cotton tapestries constitute Kiki Smith's exhibition at Palazzo Pitti.
The German artist, whose work has always been animated by a strong feminism and social commitment, now reflects on the universe, on female and animal nature, in a series of works that have a dreamlike...
Palazzo Strozzi is hosting a new exhibition from March 9th to July 14th, this time we strand from contemporary art for a while and go back to Renaissance times: 'Verrocchio, Master of Leonardo' celebrates Andrea del Verrocchio, in the first retrospective ever devoted to the Florentine artist.
This means that...
'Female Perspectives. Women of Talent and Commitment' is the new exhibition open from March 7 to May 26 at Palazzo Pitti, to celebrate Women's Day, which tells the thousand facets of the female universe between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The exhibition moves the steps from the National Unity, a...
If you happen to walk by Piazza della Signoria these days and in looking up you see a man on the Uffizi terrace, above the Loggia dei Lanzi: do not panic. It is not someone on the verge of suicide, it is only a sculpture by Antony Gormley, part of...
photo credit: © Antonio Quattrone
At Palazzo Pitti, fashion and zoology merge beyond the simple animalier, creating an imaginative and unusual natural history museum.
Almost 100 pieces of haute couture made between 2000 and 2018, compose the exhibition itinerary of Animalia, inaugurated on January 8 and open until May 5....
The Leonardo Da Vinci painter of the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and many other paint masterpieces is very well known. Not the same can be said for the Leonardo da Vinci inventor.
Leonardo was a particularly intelligent man, with an unusual thirst for knowledge fueled by a great curiosity...
Palazzo Vecchio, with its high tower is one of the symbols of Florence, and the tower, which stands 95 meters high above the roofs of the city, is what marks the location of the ancient Palazzo della Signoria even from afar.
The tower of Arnolfo was built at the beginning...
