Archivi categoria: Art

A door from the old  to the contemporary and viceversa. It is not a  metaphor. In San Pancrazio Square, Florence,  the homonymous deconsecrated church hides a Renaissance jewel, unjustly unknown to most people, a chapel by Leon Battista Alberti, commissioned … Continua a leggere→

Unforgettable mid-spring evenings on the terrace of Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, sipping a glass of Tuscan wine to celebrate  the sun setting on  Florence,  after a  guided tour in the area of the new Uffizi. The eye runs onto the … Continua a leggere→

On Saturday,  April the 14th , 2012  the Culture Week started. It is going on for nine days up to the 22nd.  In Florence, like in many Italian towns, state museums, mansions, archeological sites,  libraries  welcome  visitors, for free. Public … Continua a leggere→

Florence has always been  a place of affection for  Americans. Together with Rome and Venice, compulsory stops of the Grand Tour, it  was, and still is,  an unavoidable magnet for the lovers of art, especially as far as Renaissance is … Continua a leggere→

CCCS stands for Contemporary Culture Centre Strozzina. Its eleven rooms, covering an area of 850 sqm, located  under the courtyard of the Florentine Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, are the former cellars of the jewel of the Italian Renaissance. Since November 2007 the … Continua a leggere→