Alessandra Gardin
This is the best moment of the year for visiting gardens and Florence offers an incredible choice. Surely the best and most famous is the Boboli garden, behind the Pitti Palace. Probably not everybody knows that with the same ticket you can visit Boboli, the Museum of the Porcelaine and going up to ... More
On the occasion of the 4th centenary of CARAVAGGIO' s death (1610) Florence celebrates this great artist with an exibition which will be on from May 22nd until October 17th. The exibit will be located in three different places: at the Uffizi Gallery with 47 paintings and 13 drawings, at the ... More
On the occasion of the Italian National Feast of Liberation, April 25 and only until May 8,at the Medici Riccardi Palaceof Florence will be an interesting exibit showing the photographs made by the Eighth Army during the Liberation of Florence in 1944. It consists of 80 shots showing imagines of ... More
Until April 25 all the museums of Florence will have a free entrance. Take advantage of this opportunity booking a walking tour with a tailor made tourist itinerary andreserve an official and expert tourist guide who can take you through the masterpieces of a wonderful city. More
On April 19 2010at the Academy Gallery in Florence we celebrated the restoration of the Pietà from Palestrina, famous marble group attributed to Michelangelo. The Pietà, purchased by the Italian State in 1939 arrived in the Museum from the Chapel of the Barberini Palace in ... More
A wonderful precious little exibition in the magnificent rooms of the Argenti Museum at the ground floor of the Pitti Palace in Florence. It is a selected group of high quality items from the most important Italian and foreign museums, displayed in a space which was the summer apartament of the ... More
At the Strozzi Palace in Florence the exhibition “De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. A look into the invisible” will be onuntil July 18, 2010. This exhibition explores the early years of the career of De Chirico and the influence of his first works on movements such as ... More
After a long restauration, the Museo Bardini is now open again. The Museum is in piazza dei Mozzi in Florence, in a wonderful palace built by the antiquarian Stefano Bardini in order to house his impressive collection of art: consisting of paintings, statues, frames, carpets, arms, glaced ... More
Since last June the famous painting by Titian “La Bella” is on restauration in the Opificio delle Pietre dure in Florence, which is the seat of the Institute of Restauration of the city. The painting was recently polished removing the yellowish patina revealing the original colors: ... More
In the wonderful Sala Bianca of the Pitti Palace in Florence a very special exibit is on. Several art works, some of them really masterpieces, are shown in order to celebrate the 40 anniversary of the Carabinieri special corpse defending the artistic estate of Italy.The paintings and objects on ... More