The Museums of the city of Florence still open to families. Adults and kids, led by experts, will be accompanied to the treasures of art and history through unexpected interpretations: you can visit the valuable collection of the Bargello museum with a course on the history of music, or to approach the world of fashion with the beautiful shoes that will be made available to the Costume Gallery.
Category: Arts
A media tablet to discover the Brancacci Chapel
A media tablet to discover the secrets of the Brancacci Chapel frescoes and the cycle of stories of St. Peter of Masolino and Masaccio: this is the “news” already tested successfully in the museum of Palazzo Vecchio, and now, thanks to a resolution proposed by Sergio Givone councilor for culture, is extended to the museum housed in the Carmine.
Torre d’Arnolfo, 22,000 visitors in the first month
It’s a boom of visitors in the Tower of Arnolfo in Palazzo Vecchio: over 22 thousand people in a little more than a month. The tower, 95 meters high, was open to the public for the first time since June 24, Midsummer Day, and will remain open until the entire month of September.
Looking for a “new” Mona Lisa in Florence
A team led by art historian Silvano Vincenti, head of the National Committee for the Enhancement of Historical, Cultural and Environmental Heritage, may have discovered a tomb in a former convent that could contain the skeleton of Lisa Gherardini, thought to be the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Uffizi Gallery, the gleam of gold
This year, the rooms on the main floor of the Galleria degli Uffizi will host an important exhibition that intends to reconstruct the panorama of Florentine art in the wonderful and crucial period that extended roughly from 1375 to 1440.
Pinocchio is 131 years old, an exhibition in Florence
An exhibition on Pinocchio and an entire day dedicated to Pinocchio, the famous wooden puppet, which celebrates 131 years of age. This exhibition is held in the National Central Library, Florence, Italy, with important documents coming from the archives of Giunti publishing house.
Myths and stories in Renaissance Maiolica
For its spring 2012 season, the Museo Nazionale del Bargello has organised an exhibition on the historiated majolica of the Renaissance, exploring how this art form relates to its literary, historical and figurative sources.
The museum’s worldwide reputation relies above all on its numerous masterpieces of Renaissance sculpture, yet its equally outstanding collections of “applied art” are, in many ways, a crucial element in the attraction that the museum holds for visitors.
Paintings of the Palatine Gallery
The Sala delle Nicchie in the Palatine Gallery hosts the exhibition The Myth, the Sacred, the Portrait, paintings from the repositories of the Palatine Gallery. It is a short anthology designed to enable the public to approach knowledge of an inexhaustible and always surprising artistic heritage, the result of the lengthy collecting of the Medici family.
Botero’s 80th birthday is celebrating in Tuscany
Colombian artist Fernando Botero is celebrating his 80th birthday in the renowned sculpture centre of Pietrasanta in Tuscany, Italy, with a new exhibition of statues, including huge cats, horses and large women. Six of his giant sculptures tower over visitors in the cathedral square in the dusty town, which has been home to master artisans down the centuries.
Uffizi, the international gothic style in Florence
This year, the rooms on the main floor of the Galleria degli Uffizi (06-19-2012 – 11-04-2012) is hosting an important exhibition that intends to reconstruct the panorama of Florentine art in the wonderful and crucial period that extended roughly from 1375 to 1440. The exhibition itinerary will follow a chronological order and begin from works by the greatest interpreters of the final phase of the fourteenth-century tradition.