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Details of Florence: the bas-relief of Perseo and Andromeda at the Loggia dei Lanzi

Looking up while busy admiring the spectacular statues of the Loggia dei Lanzi including the statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa (1555) by Benvenuto Cellini, you might have missed to notice the beautiful bas-relief placed right at the base of this statue.This square bronze bas-relief depicting an episode...

5 extraordinary female artists who have left a mark in the History of Art

The world of art is historically a world dominated by men, very little has been said about women artists compared to men artists, but this does not mean that there have not been women who have left their permanent mark in the history of art. Today we want to remember...

Lugares escondidos: La iglesia Santi Apostoli

One of the most ancient buildings in Florence is certainly the Church of Santi Apostoli. It faces Piazza del Limbo, so called because here once stood a cemetery for all those children that had died before they were baptized, who - as Dante described in the Divine Comedy - remained...

The new Museo della Specola

After almost five years of closure and important redevelopment works, the Specola Museum in Florence reopened to the public with four days of free admission, offered to celebrate also the 250th anniversary of its foundation.Inaugurated on 21 February 1775 as the Imperial and Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History...

La herencia de Anna Maria Luisa de Medici

El 18 de febrero Florencia celebra a una mujer muy especial, a quien debemos la salvaguardia de nuestro patrimonio artístico: Anna Maria Luisa dei Medici, conocida también como Elettrice Palatina. Anna Maria era hija de Cosimo III y Margherita Luisa d’Orleans. Su matrimonio fue muy infeliz, sin embargo no les...

Recipes of the tradition: At Berlingaccio we make Berlingozzo!

Fat Thursday is the last Thursday of Carnival, before Lent, when people once allowed themselves to eat more "fattily" than usual to prepare for the Lenten fasts.On this date, the Berlingaccio, so called in Tuscany, was celebrated in Florence. The name refers in a way to the act of filling...

Bygone Florence: Church of San Pier Maggiore

Florence has changed its appearance many times over the centuries, and a great number of buildings was lost due to demolitions and renovations. This is the case of the Church of San Pier Maggiore, of which only traces of the arches of the external portico of the church remain in...

Los secretos de la Plaza del Duomo

Many are the anecdotes and legends regarding the city of Florence, Piazza Duomo alone is the protagonist of several of these interesting stories. Today we'll tell about you some of them. The fall of the Duomo’s golden sphere was indeed a shocking event. We must start by saying that designing...

The Museum of Costume of Palazzo Pitti reopens

The Museum of Costume of Palazzo Pitti has finally reopened to the public after a three-year closure due to Covid and a subsequent reorganization. The museum, founded in 1983 by Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti, currently displays in its twelve rooms and in the ballroom, accessories, shoes and 50 dresses of Italian...

Alphonse Mucha, the Seduction of Art Nouveau in Florence

Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Paris was the center of the art world, it was the Belle Époque and almost all the new artistic trends started from the French capital.Photography and cinema gave a new cut to images and allowed us...

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