The Fountain of Neptune is under restoration in Florence, Italy. The cost of renovation amounts to 1.5 million euro in the period 2016-18.
Read more
Category: Arts
Poor Art master Jannis Kounellis dies at 80
Jannis Kounellis, a major figure of the Poor Art movement, died in Rome on Thursday at age 80.
Read more
Giovanni dal Ponte is on display at the Accademia
The work of late Gothic Florentine painter Giovanni dal Ponte is on display in Florence.
Read more
The Tuscan mystery of the Resurrection fresco
Restoration work on Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection has revealed that the painting was originally created elsewhere and moved to its current location.
Read more
The comeback of The Adoration of the Magi
The Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece The Adoration of the Magi will be displayed at the Florence’s Uffizi Gallery at Easter 2017, director Eike Schmidt told ANSA.
Read more
Tiepolo drawings on show at Horne museum
An exhibition of 26 newly restored drawings by 18th-century Venetian artist Giambattista Tiepolo went on show at the Horne museum in Florence.
Read more
Uffizi to open the new Sandro Botticelli’s rooms
The new rooms hosting the art of Botticelli and his contemporaries are to reopen at the Uffizi Gallery: casting a new light on the Early Renaissance and expanding the corpus of Botticelli’s art with a large detached fresco of the Annunciation.
Read more
Gilding the sphere of the Florence Baptistery
The last act of the restoration of the Florence Baptisteryhas been the gilding of the Baptistery, in particular of the golden sphere on top of the dome.
Read more
150 works of Salvador Dalì at Palazzo Blu in Pisa
A new exhibition of Salvador Dalì’s masterpieces at Palazzo Blu, in Pisa will be on from October 1, 2016 to February 5, 2017.
Read more
The Renaissance by Della Robbia enchants Boston
A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, features the Luca della Robbia’s Madonna and Child, which was recently restored by Friends of Florence.
Read more