World is celebrating Dante Alighieri’s 750th anniversary birth and a Bronzino portrait of the Italian poet goes on display at Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
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Category: Arts
Piero di Cosimo on show at the Uffizi Gallery
Florentine Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo is the focus of a major exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery showing until November 27.
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Palazzo Strozzi to hosts Van Gogh, Chagall
Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will be holding an exhibition entitled Divine Beauty from Van Gogh to Chagall and Fontana from 24 September 2015 to 24 January 2016.
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Materpieces loaned by Uffizi to Casalesi fief
Uffizi Gallery in Florence have loaned precious works for the exhibit that will be on show from Monday until October 21 at the confiscated villa in the town of Casal Di Principe, near Caserta.
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Filippino Lippi exhibition opened in San Gimigano
Filippino Lippi exhibition inspired by Annunciation opened in San Gimignano (Siena). Renaissance painter on show until November 2, 2015.
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The Enoart, painting with the wine (VIDEO)
Can a painting get older, just like a man does? Just as in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Elisabetta Rogai’s wine-made paintings do.
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Homage to David: Saracino interprets Michelangelo
A new edition of Saracino’s Hero is on display at the Accademia Gallery, Florence during Expo 2015, the global exhibition that Italy until October 31, 2015.
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Senate to mark 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth
Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni red from Dante on Monday May 4, 2015, in the Italian Senate, spearheading a constellation of celebrations in Italy to mark the 750th anniversary of the medieval poet’s birth.
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Beato Angelico’s Lamentation displayed with Turin Shroud
The public presentation of the Shroud of Turin will be complemented by a famous 15th century painting The Lamentation of Christ by Renaissance master Beato Angelico.
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Pre-Etruscan tomb discovered in Volterra
Archaeologists investigating a potential building site near Volterra discovered a tomb dating from pre-Etruscan times, the Tuscan city announced on Thursday.
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