This is some weather we are having! The last few days have been incredible for Florentine residents. Getting around by car or on foot has been dangerous thanks to lots of slippery ice even more reason to publish this amazing image by one brave photographer! Florence is undeniably a romantic
What gift do YOU want for the new decade in Florence? Send us your 2010 wishes in 200 characters or less by January 7. Selected entries will be published in our January 10 issue. Top entry wins a copy of Invisible Women. redazione@theflorentine.net
At this time of year, as people plan to host family, friends and colleagues, they often worry about making the right choices of wine. When asked, I suggest deciding on the menu first and developing the wine list to follow, or vice versa. My general advice, however, is bubbles first.
Nobody likes an eco-Scrooge at Christmas time. An eco-Scrooge would tell you to save paper this festive season by wrapping all your gifts in newspaper, pages from magazines or the used wrapping paper you carefully conserved from last year. An eco-Scrooge might suggest cooking only as much
Trompe l'oeil: ‘Style of representation in which a painted object is intended to deceive the viewer into believing it is the object itself.' (Encyclopedia Britannica) Trompe l'oeil, also called illusionism, is a virtuoso optical technique that artists have practiced for centuries. Using a wide variety
Many know George Perkins Marsh as a pioneering environmentalist, statesman, author, lawyer, architect and linguist, but few know that he was an expatriate in Italy as the first and longest-serving American ambassador to Italy appointed by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Marsh was first stationed in Turin for four
Women is an expression of love for the female artists of Florence's past. Jane Fortune has dug through the archives of the Florentine museums in search of women's names and their works, which are often in storage and away from the public eye. We learn that Florence conceals