Chiesa dell’Autostrada – The Highway Church
The Chiesa dell’Autostrada – literally the Highway Church – is probably the most surprising space into which I have ever entered. Located at the halfway point of the A1 “Autostrada[...]
Restoration discovery: Pitti’s Raphael has landscape background
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)[...]
A year in blog posts 2010
It’s hard to believe that I’ve written over 200 posts since this blog opened December 18, 2009. Writing Tuscany Arts all through 2010 has made me into one of the[...]
Bronzino curator interview (5 reasons to go see it now)
If you haven’t yet seen the exhibit “Bronzino Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici” in Florence, you have exactly one month left to do so before it[...]
In Maremma: Vivamus Natale 2010
This past summer we wrote a lot about Maremma on our blogs – it’s a beautiful area to visit the beach or stay cool in the hills. Although it gets[...]
