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The facade of the Church of San Lorenzo: what would you do?

by erica on Aug 17, 2011 • View Comments

Did you know that the original facade of the San Lorenzo’s Church in Firenze is NOT Michelangelo‘s final version, right?

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Google Art Project takes you to the Uffizi

by tuscanyarts on Feb 2, 2011 • View Comments

We are constantly reminded that travel to new places is important and that virtual tours don’t measure up to the “real thing”. But with Google’s Art Project, we’re getting a virtual step closer to 17...

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Arezzo: Vasari 500 restoration visit

by tuscanyarts on Feb 1, 2011 • View Comments

In Arezzo until March 27 2011, you can get a close look at what restorers are doing to an altarpiece by Vasari. The large painting depicting the Assumption of the Virgin of 1539 and signed by the artist...

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Restoration discovery: Pitti’s Raphael has landscape background

by tuscanyarts on Jan 4, 2011 • View Comments

Italian newspapers have recently reported on an important art historical discovery by Florentine restorers at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure: the black background of Raphael’s Madonna del Granduca (Palatine Gallery) is not original. Based on x-ray...

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Florence’s Galileo Museum named best in Italy

by tuscanyarts on Dec 13, 2010 • View Comments

ICOM Italia, the national committee for museums, has awarded Florence’s Galileo Museum with one of their three prestigious “best museum” prizes. The Museo Galileo wins for best management, the only winner in Tuscany, although the Museo...

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Ferragamo Shoe Museum presents “A regola d’Arte”

by tuscanyarts on Dec 7, 2010 • View Comments

The folks at Ferragamo are entirely aware that a whole category of fetishism is dedicated to shoes. And of those with a shoe fetish, surely many swoon in front of a red stilletto. At the Ferragamo...

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Bronzino’s Chapel of Eleonora – new lighting by Targetti

by tuscanyarts on Nov 23, 2010 • View Comments

On the occasion of Florens 2010, the Biennial of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, the Florentine lighting manufacturer Targetti has developed and installed new lighting in the magnificent Chapel of Eleonora in Palazzo Vecchio, one...

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Six paintings in the Uffizi that you can see up close (online)

by tuscanyarts on Sep 30, 2010 • View Comments

Have you ever felt terribly irritated by the greenish protective glass in front of Botticelli’s Primavera and Birth of Venus? Or have you never had the opportunity to see Caravaggio’s Bacchus...

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At Palazzo Medici, scientists measure your response to art

by tuscanyarts on Aug 9, 2010 • View Comments

In Florence’s Palazzo Medici Riccardi there’s a room with a ceiling frescoed by Luca Giordano in the 1680s (it shows the Medici family in mythological guise). Antique mirrors line the walls, and a few...

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Map of what tourists photograph in Florence

by tuscanyarts on Jun 29, 2010 • View Comments

What and where do tourists photograph in Florence? And what do locals snap pics of? A mapping project by Eric Fischer uses flickr’s geotagging tool to provide the answer that you can see on this photo...

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Museo Galileo: Florence’s science museum reopens with new name

by tuscanyarts on Jun 14, 2010 • View Comments

Florence’s science museum, located near the Uffizi, reopened this week after a two-year restoration Now called “Museo Galileo” after the great scientist, the museum features super-technological display-cases, and visitors can use interactive video-guides to...

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Photographing the Duomo – an Intern’s Experience

by tuscanyarts on May 24, 2010 • View Comments

Caitlin Beverly Caspersen is one of the interns who worked on the project to photograph the Duomo in High Resolution. Here is her testimony. I do not need to tell you that Florence is one of...

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