This large artwork, signed The Typers, represents a strip of the famous Italian
satirical comics, Sturmtruppen.
Created by Franco Bonvicini (Bonvi) in 1968, the comics was published until 1994, year of the author's death following a car accident: while crossing the street, Bonvi was hit by a car conducted by...
American Art
1961-2001
concludes the trilogy dedicated to American art at Palazzo Strozzi, which began
in 2012 with the exhibition Americani a Firenze. Sargent e gli
impressionisti del Nuovo Mondo and continued in 2016 with Da Kandinsky a
Pollock. La grande arte dei Guggenheim.
The exhibition retraces the history of...
Those who were children in the 90s will certainly remember the cartoon
series called Dragon Ball, taken from the manga of the same name in 1884, by
Akira Toriyama. These imagese painted under the Varlungo Viaduct are inspired
by the protagonist of this manga, Son Goku. In the manga, just...
This time the title "Beyond
the Renaissance" should be interpreted as "Renaissance beyond itself", that is, at the top of its
idea of the world and of the rediscovery of classical culture. The facade of
Palazzo Rucellai, designed by Leon Battista Alberti and completed in 1465, is
celebrated as one...
There is no better place to find inspiration for your art projects than in the Rose Garden, just under Piazzale Michelangelo.
This garden was created in 1865 by Giuseppe Poggi, who also designed the piazzale, and it houses a collection of about 400 varieties of roses, lemons, and other plants...
This is the second large mural by Jorit in Florence, after the one
dedicated to Nelson Mandela in Piazza Leopoldo (see our blog). Ciro Cerullo,
aka Jorit, is now known all over the world, with his realistic style and a strong
social commitment. He always represents portraits, the most famous...
The Bargello, former seat of the
Podestà and prison where the condemned suffered the most terrible tortures, preserves many memories linked to Dante
and pays him homage with an exhibition and important restorations, in the 700th
anniversary of his death.
The exhibition entitled Honorable and ancient citizen of Florence. The...
The Manifattura Tabacchi: a district of 16
buildings on an area of 100,000 square meters, next to the Cascine Park. Pure
modernist rationalist architecture, designed by architects Giovanni Bartoli and
Pier Luigi Nervi in 1933, completed in 1940. According to modernist architectural
canons, the structure had to be functional to...
In Florence,
one of the most important places dedicated to Street Art is the underpass of
the Florence-Rome railway, which connects the center with Le Cure district. A kind of museum that is in continuous
transformation, worth a visit for lovers of murals who come to Florence.
Of the vast...
Leonardo Ricci died in 1994, construction began in 2000 and
the work was inaugurated in 2012.It is the second largest Palace of Justice in Italy, after the
one in Turin, covers 3 hectares of land and has a useful area of 126,000
square meters. The measurements are: 230 m by...
