Boboli was the model that inspired all of Europe’s court gardens, including Versailles
The Fondazione CR Firenze has launched 'Con l'@rte - Una finestra sulla cultura': a library of online resources from the cultural organizations it supports.
Leading Florence artisans join forces to raise funds for Careggi Hospital through an online charity auction
Following their social media response to Covid-19, the Uffizi has today launched a full-immersion tour of the gallery's most famous artworks.
Sketches and watercolours from the personal collection of Carlo Pineider have been donated to the Uffizi
MUS.E launches social media campaign to bring art into the homes of isolated Italians
An evolution of the gallery's blog to explore themes and keep in touch during coronavirus
On February 29, a bronze statue of Galileo Galilei will be placed in front of what is believed to be the scientist’s childhood home. The artist behind the ...
An announcement made today in Rome opens up an international search for 13 more directors of autonomous museums.
Livorno-born Amedeo Modigliani wasn’t a successful artist in his lifetime. The often penniless and drunk artist traded paintings for food in the Montparnasse and Montmartre neighbourhoods of Paris, where he ...
The opportunity to visit these great feats of artistic and restorative accomplishment is thanks to the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, part of the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, who financed 1,500,000 euro to disassemble, transport, restore and place the treasures in the museum.
After four years in the conservation studio, the Last Supper by Suor Plautilla Nelli returns to the complex of Santa Maria Novella for permanent exhibition.
The Uffizi has opened new rooms featuring 16th- and 17th-century artworks. Famous paintings like Titian's Venus of Urbino, Federico Barocci’s Virgin of the People and the preparatory sketch for The Fall of the Angels by Andrea Commodi are on display.
Initiative held in collaboration with other leading art museums
Acrobatic construction experts perform checks on the plaster and stonework inside Brunelleschi’s Dome at Florence Cathedral, Italy.
The Sala Bianca will resume its role as a launch pad of Florentine fashion as Stefano Ricci will holds a show to mark his label’s 45th anniversary.
The Florentine’s resident filmmaker, David Battistella, debuted a new film last weekend at a spontaneous opening party, which attracted hundreds to Florence’s new contemporary gallery Keil Art Bronze featuring ...
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Florence flood, the German luxury accessories company Montblanc has financed the restoration of three old books damaged in 1966, in collaboration with the city’s ...
In Santa Croce facts, chronicles and history become monuments in their own right. This is especially true for the Florentine floods, recollections of unexpected past events, which remain ...
SIDE BY SIDE/Arno, from source to mouthUntil November 30Palazzo Medici Riccardi, via Cavour 4, Florence Take an illuminating ride down the river: Palazzo Medici Riccardi will display photographs of points ...
Forty-year old American artist and teacher Joe Blaustein was in Florence on November 4, 1966 when the Arno submerged the city. With his camera in tow he decided to document ...
With the new, spaceship-shaped building extension by Maurice Nio complete, the Grand Opening of the new Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art will take place on October 16, 2016. Ten ...
Winning artwork will have been damaged by flood or human actions.
Since 1478, Andrea della Robbia’s 10 maiolica putti in swaddling clothes have lined the façade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti’s loggia in piazza Santissima Annunziata designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. ...