Renaissance
Small museums in Florence: a single card
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Small museums in Florence: a single card

by erica on Oct 24, 2011 • View Comments
Besides the Uffizi and the Accademia, in Florence there are plenty of musems, with as many masterworks, they just are a little unknow to most peple. This is why the The Piccoli Musei project was born!...
Tactile art path at the Uffizi for the blind
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Tactile art path at the Uffizi for the blind

by erica on Oct 17, 2011 • View Comments
A special itinerary that will allow also blind people to enjoy a special path to connect with the Uffizi Gallery masterpieces. 18 bas-relief sculptures will be presented at the Uffizi Gallery plus also a...
Palazzo Strozzi's new exhibit
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Palazzo Strozzi’s new exhibit

by erica on Sep 14, 2011 • View Comments
"Money and beauty: Botticelli the bakers and the stake": Palazzo Strozzi's new exhibit
The facade of the Church of San Lorenzo: what would you do?
Art & Technology / General Arts / Renaissance

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?
Immagini e saperi: one card for twelve tuscan museums
Exhibits / Renaissance

Immagini e saperi: one card for twelve tuscan museums

by erica on Aug 8, 2011 • View Comments
After the great news about the birth of the Florence Museum Card, the integrated museum card to access all the museums of Florence, now we also have the Images and Skills card: one card...
Special events in Arezzo to pay homage to Vasari
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Special events in Arezzo to pay homage to Vasari

by michela on Jul 19, 2011 • View Comments
“Il Giardino Profondo”: special events in Arezzo to pay homage to Vasari
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March 17th: Free Museums in Florence

by erica on Mar 8, 2011 • View Comments
The 17th of March is a special anniversary for Italy. It’s the day of the 150 years celebration of the birth of Italy as a unified country.
Exhibits / Renaissance

Drawings from Fra Angelico through Leonardo exhibit at Uffizi

by michela on Mar 7, 2011 • View Comments
“Un Anno ad Arte” exhibits in Florence about drawings from Fra Angelico through Leonardo
General Arts / Renaissance

Medici Villa Itinerary

by tuscanyarts on Feb 10, 2011 • View Comments
The Medici family were rulers of Florence for hundreds of years. In the city of Florence they lived first at the Medici-Riccardi Palace on via Larga (now via Cavour), then in the seat of government, Palazzo Vecchio, and then moved...
Renaissance

Siena: special opening of Palazzo Chigi Saracini

by tuscanyarts on Dec 20, 2010 • View Comments
The Palazzo Chigi Saracini in Siena, seat of the Musical Academy of the same name, contains the collections of Galgano Saracini that he acquired in the late 18th century. This includes works of 13th-century Sienese painting...
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,...
Exhibits / Renaissance

The Ghirlandaio Family – Renaissance painters in Florence and Scandicci

by tuscanyarts on Dec 6, 2010 • View Comments
Ghirlandaio is the family name of a workshop of artists and something of a trademark of this dynasty that, beginning in the second half of the 15th century, dominated the artistic scene of...
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