On the ground floor of the Uffizi Gallery, a truly
interesting and surprising exhibition has been set up, sure to attract also
many enthusiasts of the macabre and the unusual.
Wax
upon a time. The Medici and the arts of ceroplastics, is an exhibition
entirely dedicated to this ancient yet...
Today special guided visits are taking place in Via Il
Prato 48 to see the Brindellone, the
ceremonial chart used for thetraditional Scoppio del Carro (Explosion of the Cart) on Easter morning in Piazza del Duomo.
It’s a tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages, associated with Pazzino
de’...
The
Academia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence hosts the first major retrospective in
Italy dedicated to the Franco-Croatian artist Slavko Kopač,
a key figure in the intersection of Surrealism, Informel, and Art Brut. Eighty years after his first solo exhibition in Florence, at the Galleria
Michelangelo on Via Porta...
From September 12th to 14th, the Artigianato e
Palazzo exhibition returns to Corsini Garden!
Artigianato e Palazzo was created in 1995 by Neri Torrigiani and with the
patronage of Princess Giorgiana Corsini.
A selection of 100 Italian and European artisans, historic and emerging,
will be given space to present their work...
The 18th century marked the
transition of the Uffizi from a dynastic collection to public museum, the
first in Europe. It was Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici who bequeathed the family's
artistic heritage to Florence in 1737, and later, Pietro Leopoldo opened the
museum to the citizens.The
exhibition Florence and...
The Festa di San Lorenzo, Florence's co-patron saint, is a beloved holiday among Florentines. It's the height of summer and people go out in the evening to watch the shooting stars, but not before filling their stomachs with the delicious food offered to the citizens in Piazza San Lorenzo!The holiday...
This
year marks the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo's birth, and on this occasion,
the Galleria dell'Accademia hosts the
exhibition Luce Energia Infinito (Light Energy Infinite), featuring 18
paintings by Wang Yancheng.
The French-Chinese artist declares that the intent of his works is to capture
Michelangelo's spiritual energy. This energy manifests...
From July 4 until December 26, is possible to visit
the Vasari Corridor at night every Friday (excluding August 15).Guided tours do not require an entrance ticket to the
Uffizi Gallery, but have a separate ticket. They run from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
every 20 minutes and last 45...
On
Sunday, May 25, on the occasion of the ADSI
(Association of Italian Historic Homes) National Day, an event dedicated to historic homes, it will be possible to
visit over 500 historic residences throughout Italy for free. In Florence and
its province, 36 historic homes will be open, including palaces,...
Florence celebrates the multifaceted genius
of Giovan Battista Foggini (1652 –
1725) with a monographic exhibition at Palazzo
Medici Riccardi, organized on the occasion of the third centenary of the
artist’s death.
Foggini was one of the most influential artists of late-Medici Florence,
dedicating himself to various disciplines and excelling...
From
March 27 to July 20, Villa Bardini hosts
the exhibition Caravaggio e il Novecento.
Roberto Longhi, Anna Banti, which explores the relationships that the
couple had with important artists and figures of the twentieth century.
Roberto Longhi was one of the most
important art historians in Italy and the...
It has been 150
years since 31 artists rejected by the academic art world, including Monet, Degas, Renoire, Cezanne, Pisarro,
Delacroix, Courbet and many others, gathered in Paris in 1874 in an
exhibition that marked the birth of the Impressionist movement.
The Museo degli Innocenti celebrates
this anniversary with a...
The BIAF! – Biennale Internazionale dell’antiquariato
di Firenze (Florence International Antiques Biennial) is back, the world's most
important fair for Italian antique art, now in its 33rd edition, which will
take place from September 28 to October 6.Once again the
exhibition is hosted in the spectacular spaces of Palazzo Corsini,...
At
Villa Bardini is ongoing an
exhibition dedicated to a master of Italian photography: Mimmo Jodice. Senza
tempo (Timeless).
The exhibition of the Neapolitan artist will be open until July 14th and
includes eighty shots of great beauty taken between 1964 and 2011, that
summarize his career in 6 sections:...
There is still time to go and see
the exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Fallen
Angels at Palazzo Strozzi and we warmly invite you to do so.As soon as you’ll enter the
courtyard you’ll find yourself admiring Englessturz (The Fall of the Angel),
an enormous seven-metre-high multi-material installation that covers an entire...
The Museum of Costume of Palazzo Pitti has
finally reopened to the public after a three-year closure due to Covid and a
subsequent reorganization. The museum, founded in 1983 by Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti,
currently displays in its twelve rooms and in the ballroom, accessories, shoes
and 50 dresses of Italian...
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
Green Line light festival, which
since last year has taken the place of F – Light and illuminates the buildings symbol
of Florence is back.This
year's theme is The Winter Garden and invites us to focus on caring for the
planet, which is our home and garden, too often...
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...
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...
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...
Steve
McCurry returns in town
with another exceptional exhibition, entitled Children, set up in the
very place in Florence that has been dealing with childhood for over 600 years:
the Istituto degli Innocenti in
Piazza Santissima Annunziata, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1419, a
masterful example of harmonic and rational...
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...
A
rocket welcomes visitors entering the Reaching for the Stars exhibition in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi, and prepares them for
the journey to the stars of contemporary art.
A journey that also wishes to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in
Turin, one of the...
Alberto
Giacometti and Lucio Fontana duet
in Giacometti – Fontana. La ricerca
dell’assoluto (“The search for the absolute”), the exhibition hosted
until June 4th in the Sala delle Udienze and in the Sala dei Gigli of the Museum
of Palazzo Vecchio.
These two pioneers of 20th century art, one of...
Light,
Gaze, Presence, is the title of the exhibition of the Iranian artist Y.Z.
Kami, that takes place in different spaces of the city: Museo Novecento, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo degli Innocenti
and, exceptionally, in the millenary Abbey
of San Miniato al Monte.The Iranian-American artist offers us 24 works...
Eleonora di Toledo and the invention of the
Medici court in Florence, is the current
exhibition at Palazzo Pitti, curated by Bruce Edelstein, art historian and
professor at New York University Florence, which pays homage to the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. Spanish noblewoman of great charisma, Eleonora of...
The Uffizi Galleries pay homage to the expressionist
painter, Rudolf Levy, with a retrospective that traces the tormented life of
the artist.After fighting in World War I, Levy moved to Berlin, where
he held his first solo exhibition in 1922. The nightmare of Nazi persecution
led him to travel the...
Tony Cragg, the
world-famous British artist, is on display at the Museo Novecento with his anthological exhibition titled Transfer.
Cragg's
interest has been oriented since the beginning of his career, in the seventies,
on matter and form, with assemblages
of objects reminiscent of the Duchampian ready-made.
He
later begins to...
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...
Villa Bardini hosts
another major exhibition dedicated to photography, Elliott Erwitt. Photographs,
which celebrates the long career of one of the most famous photographers in the
world.
A collection of about 70 images personally selected by Ewitt, who celebrated his
94th birthday this year, which capture the perfect moment as...
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,...
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...
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...
“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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 "Scoppio del Carro" (Explosion of the Cart), is an event that takes place every year on Easter Sunday, and it dates back to the first Crusade.
Legend has it that the first to climb the Jerusalem walls was a Florentine named Pazzino, member of the noble Pazzi family. He...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Summer nights in Florence can be very hot, too hot to stay home watching a movie. So why not take your movie night outside?
Here is a list of outdoor cinemas in Florence that might intrest you.
First one on our list is Apriti Cinema, the summer cinema arena in...
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...
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 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...
The restoration of the Capponi Chapel in the Santa Felicita Church, founded by the Friends of Florence Foundation, recently came to a close. The works, which lasted about a year, involved the entire architectural complex and the extraordinary works of art contained in it.
Visitors will now marvel at the...
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...
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...
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...
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....
This week opened at Palazzo Strozzi the highly anticipated exhibition “Il Cinquecento a Firenze", third and last chapter of a cycle of exhibitions that started with Bronzino in 2010 and Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino in 2014.
While the previous two exhibitions focused on three of the most renowed masters active...
Precious, rare and beautiful, the lapis lazuli has always been a favourite among the artists for representing the sky and the sea in their artworks and the exhibition "Lapis lazuli, Magic of the Blue" at the Silver Museum in Florence is dedicated to those objects of art made with this...
Surprising as it may seem given his Welsh name, the british-italian painter Llewelyn Lloyd was actually born in Livorno.
He is the sole protagonist of the new exhibition at Villa Bardini, the perfect venue for his luminous and colorful paintings, that gathers together 62 works focused on his depiction of...
