Alessandra Gardin
January11-14 at the Fortezza da Basso inFlorence the 79th edition of the fashion exhibit“Pitti Imagine”is on. Performances, fashion parades and events. Do not miss Alberta Ferretti’s onein the Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte where famous fashion models, actresses, singers,will ... More
Only a few more days for visiting the exhibition "The great bronzes of the Baptistery. Rustici and Leonardo" which will close next January 10th at the National Museum of the Bargello in Florence. The last opportunity for admiring the wonderful Saint John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci, ... More
The art of selfportraitmade bypaintresses from Renaissance until today in a great exhibition“ Autoritratte. Artiste di capriccioso e destrissimo ingegno” at the Reali Poste of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence until January 30th 2011. It is a selectionof 80 pieces which is part of the ... More
FromDecember 17th until December 19thIn Florence a new edition of the Ponte Vecchio Golf Challenge the strangest and most beautifulgolf event of the year. Twelve golf players from twelve different countries will play from the most famous bridge of Florence to three floating greens on the river ... More
A very new and original idea for an unusualNativity in the Cathedral of Florence. After 13 years the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore decides to renovate the Nativity and at the same timeto celebrate the architect Arnolfo di Cambio who built the Cathedral of Florence in XIV century. Therefore the ... More
Since March 12 at the Palazzo Strozzi of Florence is on the exhibition“ Picasso, Mirò, Dalì. Angry young men: the birth of modernity”. The exhibition is dedicated to the early production of Picasso Mirò and Dalì as the beginning ofmodern art. The focus is ... More
Do come and visit Florence in wintertime!It is the best moment for art appreciators who can enjoy visiting the most important museums of Florence without standing in long queues (lines) or being squeezed in too crowed rooms and streets. Surely the weather might be not so warm, but hotels and ... More
The Museum of the Church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence is going to change the entrance: it will be from the Square Station, near the abse of the Church, where nowadays we have the Turist Information Office. The acces to the musuem will be through the Chiostrino dei morti, the Cloister of the ... More
The National Geographic will support the research of Professor Maurizio Seracini whohas being working for years on the possibility of finding the lost frescoes of the Battaglia di Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci in the Salone dei Cinquecento in the Signoria Palace in Florence.Behind the walls where ... More
Recently some scholarstried to explain why,when the Cathedral of Florence was built on the destroyed Santa Reparata, the name of the church was changed.They found documents regarding the cult of S.Jerome penitent. The saint, first traslator of the Bible in latin, was the patron of a company ... More