A genius with an insurmountable curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci used his surrounding natural landscape to fulfill the observations and make discoveries that would in turn become fundamental for his artworks, sculptures and his technical and industrial inventions. Today his home is open for public visits and tours until June.
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The Twentieth Century at Santa Caterina
24 works of art made by the masters of the Twentieth Century are on display in the fourteenth-century Oratory of Santa Caterina a Rimezzano, in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli. This unprecedented match is named Twentieth Century. Tensions and figure. The exhibition was inaugurated on the 16th of September and will finish at the end of October.
The Thirties. The arts in Italy at Palazzo Strozzi
The Thirties. The Arts in Italy Beyond Fascis (22 September 2012-27 January 2013) is an exhibition organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. It is curated by Antonello Negri. The exhibition explores the 1930s through the masterpieces of over forty leading artists of the period, including Mario Sironi, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Achille Funi, Carlo Carrà and many others.
The Medici Villas’ sights in a new exhibition
The Medici Villas were summer residences, places to rest, go hunting and have leisure time. They were all painted in lunette form by Flemish painter Giusto (Iustus) Utens, entrusted by Ferdinando I de’ Medici at the end of the sixteenth century. Seventeen lunettes have been painted, 14 of which have been collected and hosted in the Museum of Florence as it was, so far.
Autumn Arts Festival In Tuscany from October 25
Since 1998, Il Chiostro has celebrated this time of the year in Tuscany with their final workshop program of the year – The Autumn Arts Festival. The Autumn Arts Festival offers 3 separate workshops, Painting, Photography and Tuscan Cuisine, that all overlap during the 10-day celebration of the arts, the harvest, the wine and this wonderful region of Italy.
Accademia, three concerts around an exhibition
Art Returns to Art – Three Concerts around an Exhibition is promoted by the Galleria dell’Accademia and organized by Daniele Lombardi. It will start 10-01-2012 and will end 11-10-2012 at the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy. An extensive program of collateral events has been organized to accompany the exhibition Art Returns to Art, which presents over forty works by thirty-two contemporary artists in the historic premises of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence.
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.
Gozzoli, a new museum in Castelfiorentino
The city of Castelfiorentino has got a brand new museum in a building designed specifically for the frescoes of one of the most important painters of the Renaissance. The Museo Benozzo Gozzoli was conceived and constructed for the purpose of giving a home to the frescoes which Benozzo painted for two chapels built near the city.
The culture week, read the full calendar
This year, from April 14th to 22nd, MiBAC opens italian museums, mansions, monuments, archeological sites, archives and state libraries, for nine days in order to promote the Italian cultural heritage. The Culture Week offers a full calendar: exhibitions, conferences, special openings, workshops, tours and concerts.
Florentine New Year’s Day, celebrations is coming
Two exceptional events will celebrate the Florentine “New Year’S Day”, sunday: the “Award of Arts 2012” and the arrival of the exhibition “America’s Amerigo” dedicated to Amerigo Vespucci. The Arts Award is organized by “Florentines in the World” association, with the Academy of Arts and Design and the Rotary Club, to be held in the assembly hall.