Alessandra Gardin
The exibition Lorenzo Bartolini- Sculptor of the natural truth has just been oped at the Academy Gallery of Florence. Starting from the wonderful Gipsoteca (the collection of plaster models made by the master and preserved in the museum of the Galleria dell'Accademia), the exhibit points out ... More
At the Galleria d'arte Moderna of the Pitti Palace in Florence The exhibition Dagli Splendori di Corte al lusso borghese.L'Opificio delle Pietre Dure nell'Italia Unita (From the Court Splendour to the bourgeois luxury. The Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Unified Italy) is on, until September 11 2011. ... More
Until September 11 2011 at the Argenti Museum of the Pitti Palace in Florence there is the exhibition The treasure of the Cremlin, on the occasion of celebrations between Italy and Russia 2011. It is a collection of about 150 pieces which shows the luxury commissions of the Zars court. Very ... More
Until September 18 2011 The National Museum of Bargello of Florence shows the exhibition L’acqua , la pietra, il fuoco. Bartolomeo Ammannati scultore (The water, the stone and the fire. Bartolomeo Ammannati sculptor), to celebrate the 5th centenary of his birth. The exhibition mainly wants to ... More
In the wonderful frame of the Corsini Garden of Florence there will be the 17th edition of Artigianato e Palazzo (Artisanate and Palace). Since 1995, for three days more than 80 masters artisans, from all over Italy and abroad will show their ability in craftmanship . You can see how they work ... More
On April 30 2011 Florence will have another Notte Bianca . The idea is to focus on contemporary , with the intention of showing Florence not only as a renaissance city. Among the most important events a multiethnic orchestra, as a street band, will move from piazza Cestello along the Lungarni . The ... More
Until August 1 2011 at the museum Casa Buonarroti of Florence the exhibition “La scuola del mondo (the school of the world). Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo shows 22 incredible drawings: twelve by Leonardo da Vinci and ten by Michelangelo. The exhibit is a strict cooperation ... More
Until May 31 2011 at the Farsetti Gallery in Florence the exhibition “Giorgio Morandi painter of light and silence”. A selection of 50 paintings which chronicles his artistic production from 1919 until 1963. Landscapes and still lives where the chromatic range is rich of shades of ... More
On the occasion of the XIII Culture Week, until April 17 2011, the Uffizi Gallery of Florence presents at the San Pier Scheraggio room, the restoration of two important paintings preserved in the Florentine museum. They are the Selfportrait of Velazquez (from the Vasarian Corridor) whose ... More
After a five year restoration the frescoes in the main chapel of the Church of Santa Croce in Florence are visible again. It is the famous cicle of frescoes called The Legend of the discovery of the true Cross painted by Agnolo Gaddi, son of Taddeo, one of the best pupils of Giotto's. The ... More