The Port of Miami, Florida, called the Tuscan artist Giampaolo Talani to design a bronze statue of a ‘Sailor’, about 18 meters high. The statue will be placed on the point that separates the two branches of the U.S. port. The statue was chosen as a symbol of town twinning between the Port of Livorno and the Port of Miami during the celebrations for the 500 years since the death of Amerigo Vespucci.
Category: Arts
Free guided tours at the Uffizi collection Contini
Resume by Thursday, January 26 until April 26, free guided tours of the collection Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, one of the most important of the twentieth century at Uffizi gallery, in Florence, Italy.
Brunelleschi’s Dome, summit of Int’l experts
The “Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore”, in accordance with the Architectural and Landscape Heritage Office of Florence and Pistoia, held on Thursday 19 and Friday January 20 at the OPA Art and Culture Center a meeting of international experts to present for the first time the data for the past 60 years of monitoring of Brunelleschi’s Dome.
Rogai-mania for the wine paintings
Within just 36 hours latest innovation of the Florentine painter Elisabetta Rogai – paint using wine instead of color, creating paintings as they age over time – has been around the world ending on the major portals trendy, art and information from the U.S., China, Japan, Russia, Brazil, France, India, Greece and so on.
Stibbert, the englishman who fought with Garibaldi
The correspondence of the englishman Frederick Stibbert enlisted as a volunteer in Garibaldi Guard is included in a special publication of the illustrated Stibbert Museum, titled “Il collezionista inglese che fu garibalduino” (An Englishman collector who support Garibaldi), Polistampa, pages 80, Euro 18.
“Corridoio”, re-opens an hidden treasure
The Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and the Museums of Florence directed by Cristina Acidini, with the collaboration of Florence Museums for the organization and booking service, has decided to reopen to the public the Corridoio Vasariano, from Tuesday, January 17 until April 27 (except the week between 5 and 10 April 2012 and 24 and April 25).
Read moreTwo great masters: Warhol vs De Chirico
The gallery exhibits Farsetti Frediano in Florence about thirty works, including paintings, drawings and sculptures, which compare two great masters of the twentieth century: Giorgio De Chirico and Andy Warhol.
Read moreUffizi visitors, highest number ever
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence beats his record for the visitors in a year: in 2011 were 1.766.000, the highest number ever in the history of the museum.
Read moreFriends of Florence raised $350,000 for Uffizi
The nonprofit organization Friends of Florence raised more than $350,000 Oct. 18 in the private dining rooms of Spiaggia in Chicago (Illinois), US. The report of the event was published some days ago on the local newspaper Chicago Sun-Times. The goal of the evening is to restore and reopen the historic Tribuna in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
Read moreMoscow-Florence, Betori blesses the exchange
The Archbishop of Florence, Monsignor Giuseppe Betori, called the exhibition of three precious icons of Russian art in the Baptistery of Florence “an exchange of art and faith.” The exchange of masterpieces of the art and faith, called “In Christo” is inaugurated last days in Russian capital and in the city of the Reinassence.
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