Alessandra Gardin
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
In Florence at the Museo di San Marco the exhibition dedicated to Mattia Corvino, the king of Hungary influenced by the Florentine Renaissance: Mattia Corvino and Florence. Art and Humanism at the court of the king of Hungary. The location of the exhibit is the splendid Library of the Domenicans, ... More
Since September 27 at the Strozzi Palace in Florence the exhibition Russian avant-guard, the Siberia and the East. Kandisky, Malevič, Filonov, Gončarov.It is the first International exhibit showing the importance of eastern and euroasiatic sources in Russian Modernism. Neolithic stone ... More
Since Saturday July 27 2013 and every last Saturday of the month until December 2013, State museums in Italy will be opened by night from 8:00 pm until Midnight. Take advantage of this great opportunity: reserve a private tour avoiding the daily crowd and enjoying the masterpieces with your ... More
The FIRENZE CARD is a pass which can be purchased on line, or directly in Florence ( At the ticket Office of the Palazzo della Signoria, at the Information point of the Duomo c/° Museo del Bigallo, or at the Information point of Santa Maria Novella in front of the main train station of ... More
The just reopened Forte di Belvedere in Florence hosts the exhibition “The Soul and the Material” (l’Anima e la Materia), the most important exhibit of the Chinese artist Zhang Huan. As the name of the show suggests, the material is the peculiarity of the artist who mixed metal, ... More