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World’s Largest Puzzle: Ravensberger Keith Haring puzzle in Pisa

by tuscanyarts on Dec 15, 2010 • View Comments

As of Summer 2010, the world’s largest puzzle is produced by Ravensberger. Although it’s manufactured in Germany, right now a group of people in Pisa have gotten together to complete it! As the puzzle...

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Lucca itinerary

by tuscanyarts on Dec 14, 2010 • View Comments

The Lucchesi have the reputation for being reserved; the city of Lucca has secreted its treasures behinds its thick walls. The following can be considered a guide to Lucca: an itinerary for a very full day-trip from Florence or a list...

General Arts / Renaissance

Ten Nativity Scenes in Renaissance art

by tuscanyarts on Dec 9, 2010 • View Comments

With Christmas coming up, what better time than to remember the Life of Christ represented in the paintings of the Tuscan Renaissance. The theme of the Nativity, and the related narration of the Adoration of the Shepherds,...

Art & Technology / General Arts

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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Medici Chapels and Michelangelo

by tuscanyarts on Nov 30, 2010 • View Comments

My colleagues are taking advantage of the free Tuesday night opening tonight in state museums to visit the Medici Chapels (Cappelle Medicee), part of the monumental complex of the Church of San Lorenzo. Unfortunately I can’t be with them...

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Audrey Scott: Fall Itinerary and Experiences in Tuscany

by tuscanyarts on Nov 29, 2010 • View Comments

This Fall I was contacted by Audrey Scott of Uncornered Market; she was planning a 10-year anniversary trip and wanted some help deciding where to go and what to do. She and her husband Dan...

Contemporary Art / General Arts

Damien Hirst Diamond skull in Palazzo Vecchio

by tuscanyarts on Nov 26, 2010 • View Comments

For the Love of God is a life-size cast of a human skull in platinum, entirely covered by 8,601 VVS to flawless pavé-set diamonds, weighing a total of 1,106.18 carats. Set into the forehead is a...

Art & Technology / General Arts

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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David in his originally intended location

by tuscanyarts on Nov 12, 2010 • View Comments

It’s not every day that one gets to take a rickety elevator up the side of the Duomo to see the David in his originally intended location – at the level of the ballustrade, high up on...

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Florens 2010 (November 12-20)

by tuscanyarts on Nov 11, 2010 • View Comments

We’re in for a thick week of cultural events! Starting today November 12th and running through Saturday November 20th 2010 is “Florens 2010“, the first International Week on Cultural Heritage and Landscape. This event is a forum on the...

General Arts / Renaissance

5 important sculptures in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence

by tuscanyarts on Nov 11, 2010 • View Comments

On the street behind Brunelleschi’s cuppola is one of Florence’s lesser-known museums – the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. It contains sculpture removed over time from both the interior and exterior of the...

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Tuscany in tilt-shift: Macchiaioli paintings

by tuscanyarts on Nov 8, 2010 • View Comments

Recently we saw a photo album of Van Gogh paintings rendered in “tilt-shift“, a camera technique that applies selective focus and that has recently been used a lot to make city scenes look like miniatures. Van Gogh looks...

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