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Boboli Gardens reopen

Boboli was the model that inspired all of Europe’s court gardens, including Versailles

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Cultural resources online

The Fondazione CR Firenze has launched 'Con l'@rte - Una finestra sulla cultura': a library of online resources from the cultural organizations it supports.

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A charity auction of top Florentine crafts

Leading Florence artisans join forces to raise funds for Careggi Hospital through an online charity auction

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Free Uffizi tours from home

Following their social media response to Covid-19, the Uffizi has today launched a full-immersion tour of the gallery's most famous artworks.

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Pineider Collection comes to Uffizi

Sketches and watercolours from the personal collection of Carlo Pineider have been donated to the Uffizi

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Civic museums brought to people’s homes

MUS.E launches social media campaign to bring art into the homes of isolated Italians

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In Touch at Palazzo Strozzi

An evolution of the gallery's blog to explore themes and keep in touch during coronavirus

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Pisa unveils a monument to Galileo Galilei

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 ...

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Autonomous museums, take two

An announcement made today in Rome opens up an international search for 13 more directors of autonomous museums.

ART + CULTURE

Modigliani back home

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 ...

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Andrea Pisano’s South Doors arrive at Opera del Duomo Museum

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.

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Nelli’s Last Supper restored

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.

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Cinquecento Rooms open at the Uffizi

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.

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Uffizi welcomes spring with a Botticelli marathon

Initiative held in collaboration with other leading art museums

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Experts check plaster and stonework inside Brunelleschi’s Dome

Acrobatic construction experts perform checks on the plaster and stonework inside Brunelleschi’s Dome at Florence Cathedral, Italy.

ART + CULTURE

White Room to reopen at the Pitti Palace

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.

ART + CULTURE

Keil Art Bronze gallery opens in Florence

  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 ...

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Montblanc restores flood-damaged books

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 ...

ART + CULTURE

Vasari’s Last Supper returns to Santa Croce

    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 ...

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Commemorative events for the 1966 flood: highlights

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 ...

ART + CULTURE

Florence flood exhibitions in New York and Washington

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 ...

ART + CULTURE

Pecci then and now

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 ...

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2016 Friends of Florence Grant competition

Winning artwork will have been damaged by flood or human actions.

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Museum of the Innocents to reopen June 23, 2016

  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. ...

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