It may happen that
looking for the address of a shop becomes confusing for those coming from
outside Florence, because in the Tuscan capital a differentiation is made
between the house numbers, written in black, and those of commercial
activities, marked with red numbers.
The origins
The civic numbering in...
Street art is generally
characterized by bright colors, but some artists prefer to use black and white,
often for works of a more emotional nature.
This is the case with
these two portraits of elderly men, whose intense gazes convey sadness and a
sense of loneliness in the observer.
...
Pietrasanta is a small town 100 km from Florence, near the sea and at
the foot of the Apuan Alps, from where the marble,
that all Tuscan monuments have been built with, has been extracted for
centuries. It has always been frequented by many artists, in the past even by...
Leonardo Savioli (1917 - 1982) was one of the most important
Florentine architects. Great illustrator, abstract expressionist and informal
painter, professor at the University of Florence. He had graduated with
Giovanni Michelucci and had participated in the planning of the Urban
Development Plan of Florence in the years after the...
Summer 2019. Antella, an ancient village of 3000 inhabitants
a few kilometers from Florence. A middle school named
after Francesco Redi (1626 -1697), Tuscan scientist considered the founder of
experimental biology. One morning the town wakes up to find the walls of this school vandalized, smeared with
vulgar drawings and...
The monumental installation by Giuseppe Penone entitled Abete, which has been in Piazza
della Signoria since March, has already been talked about. A majestic tree,
over 22 meter high, in steel and bronze.
The installation of it in the square was only the preview of the
artist's exhibition that is...
The elephant is a subject that is rarely found in Florence, Florentine writers
generally prefer to depict aquatic creatures, monkeys, snakes, insects and hybrids. This is a work that comes form that street art open-air museum that is the Varlungo Viaduct. The skillful play of light and shadow gives three-dimentionality...
The New Opera Theater has replaced the old Municipal Theater, the work of the engineer Telemaco Bonaiuti,
which dated back to 1862. The old
building was no longer considered to be up with the times, especially from
a technical and safety point of view and was no longer able to...
This mural refers to a tragic
story of our day. Orso, i.e. Lorenzo Orsetti (1986 - 2019) was a Florentine boy
who died on March 18, 2019 in Al-Baghuz Fawqani, in northern Syria (Rojava),
where he had gone to fight against ISIS, together with the Kurdish militia
Popular Protection Unit...
After a year of pandemic
and social distancing, Forte Belvedere reopens with Ieri, oggi, domani.
Italia autoritratto allo specchio, a project of the Museo Novecento
born under the artistic direction of Sergio Risaliti.
The project includes two photographic exhibitions, open simultaneously at the
Forte Belvedere from 25 June to 10...
