Alessandra Gardin
In the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, on the occasion of the 450 anniversary of Michelangelo’s death (February 18 1564) the rooms 33 and 34 show a new outfitting. On a sage green plaster thirty-nine statues and relieves represent the tribute Renaissance paid to the classical past. The first room ... More
The restoration of the Baptistery of Florence is starting and it is supported by the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore for a total amount of one million and eight hundred euros. It concernes the cleaning of the marble decoration (white marble, green marble and porfiry) of the eight faces of the ... More
At the National Museum of Bargello in Florence (from April 9 2014 until July 13 2014) a great exhibition celebrates the sculptor and master Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560). Vasari defines him “artist of eternal fame” and his biography in Vasari’s Vite is one of the longest, after ... More
From February 11 to May 11 2014 the Uffizi Gallery of Florence hosts the exhibition dedicated to the painting collection of Francesco Molinari Prandelli, famous musician and conductor, born in Bologna in 1911. The exhibit The rooms of the Muses. Baroque paintings from the Molinari Prandelli ... More
From January 28 2014 at the Sala Bianca of the Pitti Palace in Florence a great exhibition Once in your life. Treasures from Archives and Libraries of Florence. The exhibit consists of 133 pieces including documents, manuscripts, books and drawings; some of them never show before, such as a ... More
Since next 18 February 2014 celebrating the 450 Anniversary of Michelangelo’s death (18 February 1564) the Accademy Gallery hosts the exhibition Re-cognizing Michelangelo. Buonarroti’s sculpture in photography and painting from 1800’s on. Starting from the early photographic ... More
Inauguration at the Uffizi Gallery of Florence of the new yellow rooms dedicated to Baroque. Six rooms in the oldest part of the Uffizi building which belonged to 1580 and which was the space where semi-precious stone in lay works were done. 48 paintings are now displayed, coming from the storage ... More
The Institute for Restoratione of the Opificio delle Pietre dure of Florence is restoring the Porta Nord (the Northern Gate) of the Baptistery. The restorators have just discovered that the bronze door, cast by Lorenzo Ghiberti at the beginning of Renaissance, is a guilded door as well as the most ... More
The Rape of the Sabine women, the famous group carved by Jean de Boulogne and displayed under the Loggia of the Signoria Square in Florence, might be moved into the Uffizi Gallery for preservation porpouses. The marble, as the recent restoration made a few years ago has pointed out, under the ... More
Twelve masterpieces of the Impressionists from the Musee d’Orsay of Paris are visible until January 5 2014 at the Modern Art Gallery of the Pitti Palace in Florence.The exhibition is divided in two sections: En plein air dedicated to the landscape and the relationship with the light and its ... More