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Tag: Loggia dei Lanzi

Davis Senior High School Baroque Ensemble to perform at the 19th Florence Youth Festival

1.000 musicians at the 19th Florence Youth Festival

Tuesday, July 4, 2017 Editorial Staff Life

From the 4th of July to the 2nd of August, Florence will host the 19th Florence Youth Festival with more than 1.000 musicians.

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World Autism Awareness Day in Florence

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Editorial Staff Life

The seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2, 2014. Every year, autism organizations around the world celebrate the day with unique fundraising and awareness-raising events.

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Loggia dei Lanzi, tourist takes finger from Pio Fedi’s statue

Monday, April 1, 2013 Editorial Staff News

Florence cultural authorities on Friday moved to repair Pio Fedi’s Rape of Polyxena in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the central Piazza della Signoria following the removal of a finger in the latest act of vandalism against the statue.

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Follow the tracks of Cellini in the Tuscan countryside

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Editorial Staff Arts

Benvenuto Cellini (1500 – 1571), sculptor of the Perseus in the Loggia degli Uffizi in Florence and of the famous salt-cellar (known as Saliera) made for Francis I, speaks of the home and farm purchased in Vicchio in his autobiographical memoirs.

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A statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi damaged

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Arts

Ratto di Polissena by Pio FediToday, at 8 am, a body monitoring (“Friends of the Earth”) in the Loggia dei Lanzi found the phalanx of a finger of the left hand of the sculpture by Pio Fedi depicting “The Rape of Polyxena” had been removed. All fingers of this hand are product additions made necessary by repeated acts of vandalism (the last in March 2009).

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New monitoring for the “Rapt of the Sabine”

Monday, March 5, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Arts

Rapt of the Sabine (Ricardo André Frantz) - CCFrom next Monday, March 12, 2012, starts the new monitoring session on “The Rapt of the Sabine”, Giambologna’s sculpture placed under the Loggia dei Lanzi and the competence of Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and the Museums of city ​​of Florence.

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