Alessandra Gardin
Three never-before-seen works by Bronzino are on restauration at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence and they will be ready for the exibition running from September 24, 2010 to January 23, 2011 at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi. They are a painted Crucifix commissioned by Bartolomeo ... More
As an official local guide in Florence I recommend you to be very very careful when you decide to reserve tickets for the Uffizi Gallery or for the Academy Gallery.Recently they createthe website of the Firenze Musei toreserve tickets even on internet, but you can also callat (0039) 055 294883 the ... More
Until November 2, at the museum Medici Chapels in Florence an interesting exibit is celebrating the forth centenery of Henry IV' s death. He was Maria de' Medici's husband and Florence wanted to celebrate a funeral "in effige", coommissioning to several artists monocromes paintings for ... More
Do visit Florence with an official turist guide! Dochoose Alessandra Gardin, your official guide in Florence! She is the right person for showing you the masterpieces famous all over the world and the secrets of such a magic town. You can have a custom made tour according to your interests and your ... More
After Michelangelo’s passion for the marble of Carrara, where he usedto go and select the best pieeces of marble forhis famous statues visible in manymuseums in Florence, suchas the Academy Gallery and the Bargello, another artist, more contemporary, David Bryan, seems to be fondof the ... More
After atwo year restauration, Florence's Institute and Museum of the History of Science renamed the Galileo Museum, has reopened to public. The new facility, hailed as one of world's high-tech, cuttting edge museums, will showcase a collection of over 1,000 items, including telescopes, maps, ... More
In Florence, at the Academy Gallery and at the Museo Horne, until the end of September there is the exibition “Virtues of Love. Wedding paintings in the Florence ofQuattrocento ( XV century ). It consists of over 40 paintedpanels belonging to different museumsfrom all over the world. Most ... More
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