Alessandra Gardin
Every year the Costume Gallery at the Pitti Palace in Florence changes the collection of the temporary display. Actually the complete collection consists of 6,000 pieces, among themtheatre costumes,vintage dresses, high fashion dresses and accessories. Besides the funeral dresses of Eleonora from ... More
On the occasion of the exibit “ The Great bronze sculptures of the Baptistery. Rustici and Leonardo”, just open in Florence at the National Museum of the Bargello, the magnificent “St. John the Baptist”by Leonardo da Vinci is back to Florence after 500 years. The painting, ... More
The Crucifix of the Church of Santo Spirito in Florence, carved by a young Michelangelo, after being shown in Turin and Naples, is coming back to its original location. Michelangelo was guess of the prior Niccolò di Lapo in 1492, when he was 17 years old, and in order to thank him, made ... More
From September 24th 2010until January23rd 2011 at the Strozzi Palace in Florence is opening the exibition “Bronzino. Painter and poet at the Medici’s court”. It is the first exibit totally dedicated to Agnolo di Cosimo, called Bronzino (1503-1572).Surely one of the most ... More
Until October 11th at the museum Casa Buonarroti, 70 Ghibellina street in Florence, the exibit "An european glory. Pietro da Cortona in Florence (1637-1647) is on show. The exibit consists of paintings and drawings by the famous baroque painter whowasin Florence and worked for the Grand Duke ... More
Untilthe 30th April 2011 the exibit "VINO NOSTRUM. ART, SCIENCE AND MYTHS OF WINE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATIONS"will be visible at the Argenti Museum of the Pitti Palace in Florence. The exibition consists of remains, scultures, frescoes and mosaics expounded by videos and screens ... More
The exibit "The great bronze scultpures of the Baptistry in Florence. Rustici and Leonardo"was opensince last10th September at the National Musem of Bargello in Florence. The exhibition shows, among other works by Giovanfrancesco Rustici (1475-1554) coming from important European and ... More
Every September, on 7th and 8th , in Florence we celebrate the Rificolona feast. It is a parade of children and grown ups, walking through the streets of the city centre of Florence holdingcolourful paper lamps of many different shapes. The origin of this feast is probably due to the countrymen ... More
Would you like to visit a city rich of monuments and masterpieces as Florence is, without loosing heart? Do you want to be sure of seeing the most important things and to be able to appreciate them under a different point of view? Then do choose your guide very carefully:Alessandra ... More
The Guidi House in Florence, as we see it today, has the same number of rooms and the same layout of the flat rented in 1847 by the couple Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Browning, the famous English poets who lived in this house for several years and died in 1861. Themajority of paintings ... More