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Stephanie Martin left Belfast in Northern Ireland for Siena, travelling with an Englishman. Together they sold olive oil on an idyllic 12 acres of land, living the Tuscan dream. A ...
If Italian PM Draghi’s road map is to be believed and this summer follows last year’s tendency, over the next month we’ll be returning to some semblance of normality. It ...
The International School of Florence is working closely with the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi on a collaborative project that connects students directly to the rich heritage and contemporary culture of Florence, ...
When Boccaccio’s ten-person brigata flocked to the isolated countryside during the plague, music set the rhythm to their days, acting as a cure-all for the biological and the social body. ...
If ‘Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them: there is no third’, as T. S. Eliot famously claimed, we might say that Florence is divided between Dante and Michelangelo. ...
Born and raised in Florence, Cecilia Cosci brings her strikingly modern take on Renaissance art to the Oltrarno’s Tobian Art Gallery this May. Cecilia Cosci, Tabù, 2019. ...
The Artisan Quarter Association was founded to raise awareness of the deteriorating situation in the Oltrarno and to privately fund our support efforts through donations. Our membership is comprised of ...
The longer I live in Florence, the more convinced I am that there is some unusual magic in this place where artistic souls have not just passed through for millennia, ...
“I’ll have herbal tea if there’s some going,” she chuckles, bundling with energy into The Florentine offices for an interview/chat/long overdue catch-up. “It’s been one hell of a morning.” Born ...
As we all seek ways to stay connected to each other and to Italy, these new publications have emerged in recent months, giving us plenty to sustain our appetites. ...
“What happens when a work of art is found where it’s not supposed to be, like in a mailbox?” This is just one of the questions raised by the mysterious ...
March 27 was the public presentation, albeit virtually, of the exhibition by the young, yet seasoned British artist Lewis Hammond with his first Italian institutional exhibition While We Were Sleeping ...
As Florence cautiously moves toward reopening its cultural institutions, Friends of Florence’s work safeguarding the city’s artistic and architectural treasures has continued, albeit at a slightly slower pace per Covid-19 ...
Italian-Thai artist Giulia Peyrone is a contemporary artist and designer who established her first studio in Brooklyn, New York, in 2016. Now in Florence, you may have seen her large-scale ...
Former investment manager, now full-time art collector Christian Levett and his wife Florence recently moved to the city. Their central Florence home is an inspiring gallery in its own right, ...
After a monotonous winter devoid of culture, live events finally look set to recommence in Tuscany. On Saturday, May 8, Covid numbers permitting, one of the first theatrical performances of ...
Hershey Felder is relaxing between takes of his latest film, Nicholas, Anna & Sergei, which will air on May 16, 2021. All tickets available (55 US ...
Say Florence and your second thought is undoubtedly art. Year after year, century after century, the art enamored have moved to the Tuscan capital, delving into boundless artistic heritage and ...
Piazza Beccaria is not one of the places in Florence most visited by tourists. But it is known to residents as the point where the ring road (viale) round ...
The conservation and restoration of the Archangel Raffaele e Tobiolo, which Giovanni Baratta sculpted between 1696 and 1698, has proven a months-long labour of love for the Mircea Maria Gerard ...
Postcards from Florence is a digital exhibition created by the students of Polimoda, which reflects the multicultural creative minds unique to Florence. Thirty young creatives are associated with ...
A friend telephoned me a month ago and said, “I’m coming by to take you to see a real piece of industrial archaeology”. He did that and so much more. ...
In 2019, the Italian Senate made the decision to form the Segre Commission as a focus group dedicated to combatting hate, racism and antisemitism across the country, based on a ...
When you’re on the prowl for Renaissance fresco paintings in Florence, the church of Santa Maria Novella is the place to go. You are greeted upon entry by ...
