Light,
Gaze, Presence, is the title of the exhibition of the Iranian artist Y.Z.
Kami, that takes place in different spaces of the city: Museo Novecento, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo degli Innocenti
and, exceptionally, in the millenary Abbey
of San Miniato al Monte.The Iranian-American artist offers us 24 works...
Art has
always been the means through which mankind gave a tangible form to emotions,
desires and fears. Therefore it does not surprise that love, being perhaps the
strongest emotions of all and what every human craves, became one of the main
themes throughout the history of art. Everyone loves...
Eleonora di Toledo and the invention of the
Medici court in Florence, is the current
exhibition at Palazzo Pitti, curated by Bruce Edelstein, art historian and
professor at New York University Florence, which pays homage to the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. Spanish noblewoman of great charisma, Eleonora of...
The Uffizi Galleries pay homage to the expressionist
painter, Rudolf Levy, with a retrospective that traces the tormented life of
the artist.After fighting in World War I, Levy moved to Berlin, where
he held his first solo exhibition in 1922. The nightmare of Nazi persecution
led him to travel the...
The ancestors of pizzaPizza, the most famous Made in Italy product in the world, has very ancient origins. Its first ancestor dates back to the time of the Ancient Egypt, when yeast was discovered, a fundamental ingredient for creating the dough for bread and focaccia which were then filled or...
Entering Palazzo Vecchio from the door that overlooks Piazza della Signoria on the side of the Loggia dei Lanzi, you will find yourself directly in Michelozzo's Courtyard, designed by him in 1453. Stuccos, paintings, grotesques, coats of arms and statues contribute to making the space spectacular, leaving all visitors in...
In Tuscany they are much loved and are often given as gifts to friends and relatives during the Christmas period, yet no one knows the exact origin of the Ricciarelli of Siena.According to a legend, it was the knight Ricciardetto Della Gherardesca who brought back from the Crusades these sweets,...
Tony Cragg, the
world-famous British artist, is on display at the Museo Novecento with his anthological exhibition titled Transfer.
Cragg's
interest has been oriented since the beginning of his career, in the seventies,
on matter and form, with assemblages
of objects reminiscent of the Duchampian ready-made.
He
later begins to...
Creator of visionary, ingenious,
impossible worlds, M.C. Escher was one of the most original artists of
the 20th century. His woodcuts, lithographies and engravings have now become
part of our collective imaginary and still manage to fascinate and amaze today.
The great Florentine exhibition, hosted in the halls
of the...
The
Chimera of Arezzo, was found on
November 15, 1553 during the
excavation works for the construction of the Medici fortification walls, near
the Porta San Lorentino.
Cosimo I de' Medici, great
collector and art estimator, fell in love with this work so deeply that he decided
to personally take...
