Alessandra Gardin
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
From the 16 of July until the 3rd of November the Pitti Palace in Florence houses the exhibition dedicated to the Medici collection of ivory objects: “Diafane passioni” (Diaphanous passions). The first collector was Ferdinando I de’ Medici (1549 -1609) who started one of the most ... More
The Unesco Comittee of evaluation, meeting in these days in Cambogia, has decided to include in the list of the Unesco World Heritage two Renaissance gardens and twelve villas in Tuscany. The gradens are: the Boboli garden and the Pratolino garden. Among the villas, very many were Medici ... More
The Kaffeehaus inside the Boboli garden in Florence has been reopened to public. The precious little building where the granduke Pietro Leopoldo from Austria drank his cofee and had a rest with his family shows inside an interesting group of four statues belonging to the second half of the XVI ... More
Since June 25 2013 at the Uffizi Gallery of Florence you can appreciate a wonderful exhibition: The Grand Price Ferdinand de’ Medici (1663-1713) Collector and Patron. Ferdinand, son of Cosimo III and of Marguerite Louise d’Orleans since he was young had several passions: among them: ... More
At the Palatina Gallery of the Pitti Palace of Florence an original exhibition called The dream in Renaissance (Il sogno nel Rinascimento). The exhibit is divided in several sections, among them the Night, with its complex symbology, The vacancy of soul, which points out works tied to the dream and ... More