Renaissance
Renaissance

Itinerary: Finding Michelangelo in Florence

by tuscanyarts on Mar 16, 2010 • View Comments
Michelangelo was born in 1475 to a Florentine family while they were temporarily residing near Arezzo (Caprese), and he was sent out to a wetnurse near Settignano whose husband was a marble-cutter. He told Vasari that he drank...
Renaissance

The cassone: a Renaissance marriage chest

by tuscanyarts on Feb 15, 2010 • View Comments
The other day on facebook I posted a photo of the so-called “Cassone Adimari” (Galleria dell’Accademia, Firenze) and asked “What is this object? How did it function?”. It was a trick question! The Cassone Adimari probably isn’t...
Exhibits / Renaissance

Siena exhibit satisfies stringent scholars of Renaissance Art

by tuscanyarts on Feb 1, 2010 • View Comments
Art Geeks beware!! Siena is preparing the most important show ever attempted of the arts in the Early Renaissance (an exploration of the transition from Gothic to the Renaissance)! This is a period in art...
Exhibits / Renaissance

Paolo Giovio’s portrait collection @Uffizi

by tuscanyarts on Dec 22, 2009 • View Comments
My Friends of the Uffizi newsletter arrived the other day with the triumphant announcement that, thanks to their purchase of a portrait by Amico Aspertini for the Uffizi collections, this years “I Mai Visti” (the never-before-seen) exhibit will...
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