Amico reconsidered exposition, drawings by Amico Aspertini and other Bolognese artists is still open until February 2, 2015. The original works can be admired at the Department of Prints and Drawings of Uffizi Gallery in Florence but the exposition is online too.
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The Italian government has announced it will spend about $ 300,000 on a new, stronger plinth for Michelangelo’s David because of a recent series of tremors in the Tuscan Region, the BBC reported some days ago.
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New opening times during the Holidays in the most visited galleries and museums in Florence, Italy: Bargello, Uffizi and Accademia.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Two 17th-century letters discovered in the small hill town of Urbino, in the Marche region.
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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.
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An exhibit celebrating 19th century Italian masters of the Macchiaioli movement opened Friday October 3, 2014, at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
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