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...
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...
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...
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...
On the 18th of February Florence celebrates a very special woman, the one to whom we owe the salvaging of our art heritage: Anna Maria Luisa dei Medici, also known as the Electress Palatine.
Anna Maria was the daughter of Cosimo III and Margherita Luisa d'Orleans. Theirs was a very...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
