Arts

The Rise of the Towers in the city of Florence

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 Editorial Staff Arts

It is the year 542 AD: the small Byzantine city of Florentia lies in ruins. It is the beginning of The Lost Tower of Florence eBook by Chris Dobson which describes how those now-vanished towers came to be built.

The very hidden fame of the Florence towers

Sunday, December 14, 2014 Editorial Staff Arts

The Lost Towers of Florence by Chris Dobson is now available as second edition eBook. It describes the Florentine now-vanished towers: how they came to be built, why they have almost entirely disappeared, and where you can still get an impression of what these incredible buildings were like, if you know where to look.

yracuse University Graduate Program in Renaissance Art Celebrating its 50th Anniversary

Behind the Fig Leaf, Symposium in Florence (Video)

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Annalisa Rossi Arts

The symposium Behind the Fig Leaf – Erotic Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy will take place Thursday, December 4, 2014, 4 pm, Room 13, Villa Rossa, at the SUF – Syracuse University in Florence.

Travels to the East at Casa Martelli, Florence

Friday, November 28, 2014 Editorial Staff Arts

Travels to the East is the iconic exhibition at Casa Martelli, via Zannetti 8, 50122 Florence, Italy in collaboration with Musée national et domaine du château de Pau (last day January 30, 2015).

Letters confirm Caravaggio died at Porto Ercole

Monday, November 24, 2014 Editorial Staff Arts

Two 17th-century letters discovered in the small hill town of Urbino, in the Marche region.

Intl. Crowdfunding to restore the Pazzi Chapel

Friday, November 21, 2014 Editorial Staff Arts

From November 17 to December 19, 2014, Opera di Santa Croce will be running an international crowdfunding campaign to restore the loggia of the Pazzi Chapel. This is the first ever Kickstarter campaign by a major cultural institution in Florence, Italy.