Alessandra Gardin
Pitti Palace in Florence is celebrating Japan, its art, its culture and its traditions. From April 3 2012 until July 1 2012 three exhibitions will be hosted in three different museums under the epigraphy Japan. Land of enchantment. In the Sala Bianca of the Palatina Gallery (First floor) The ... More
From March 20 2012 until June 3 2012 at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence the exhibition La Galleria degli arazzzi. Epifanie di tessuti preziosi. (The tapestries collection. Epiphany of precious fabrics). The exhibit consists of 17 selected tapestries from the rich collection of the Uffizi Gallery ... More
The Medici Venus, one of the most important pieces of the Medici collection of antiques is on restoration. The very famous statue, preserved in the Tribune of the Uffizi gallery in Florence is object of a detailed restoration supported by the Foundation Friends of Florence. The researches have ... More
Tomorrow, February 23 2012, on the occasion of the 5th centenary of Amerigo Vespucci’s death, in Ognissanti Square in Florence, the Major Matteo Renzo will start the celebrations for Vespucci’s Year. At 10:30 am, just in front of the Hospital of San Giovanni di Dio, once belonged to one ... More
Until March 19 2012 visit with your professional authorized guide of Florence the exhibition of Russian icones in the Baptistery of Florence. It is a great opportunity of seeing three Russian inones from the Tretyakov State Gallery of Moscow which have never come back to a church since the Russian ... More
AMERIGO VESPUCCI AND THE AMERICANS This year, 2012, is the fith centenary of Amerigo Vespucci’s death (1454-1512) and Florence celebrates not only the great navigator, but even the beginning of a strict relationship between the city and the New World (to whom Vespucci gave name) with ... More
From March 3 2012 until July 15 2012 the Strozzi Palace in Florence will host the exhibition Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists. Being 2012 the fith centenary of Amerigo Vespucci’s death, Florence wants to celebrate the strong relationship between the old and the ... More
Until 25 March 2012 the Museum Alinari of History of Photography in Florence presents an exhibition dedicated to Brian Duffy (1933-2010), the legendary english photographer famous for his photos of musicians, actors and fashion models of the Swinging London in 1960s. At the apex of his career he ... More
Until January 29 2012 in Florence at the Sala delle Reali Poste at the ground floor of the Uffizi Gallery another edition of I mai visti (Never seen before) is on show. The exhibition shows 44 busts of Cesars belonging to the classical roman art and being part of the rich collection of antiques the ... More
Tomorrow, Saturday December 17 2011 the eight new rooms of the Grandi Uffizi in Florence will be inaugurated. They are located at the first floor of the Uffizi building, but the access is from the atrio of the Cafeteria, passing trhough an armed concrete tower which hides the staircase. The new ... More