Alexandra Korey is Head of Digital at The Florentine's sister company, Flod. She specializes in social media & digital strategy for tourism, culture and wine. In a past life, she was an art history professor with a PhD from the University of Chicago. For fun, she writes her blog www.arttrav.com, where she's been reporting on art, culture and life in Italy since 2004.
A new algorithm developed by Henry Muccini at the University of L'Aquila resolves the historic problem of the Uffizi lineup.
With the 2018 harvest season drawing to an end, The Florentine found out what to expect from this vintage in the making.
Pontormo's painting from Carmignano has left Italy for the first time for the exhibition Miraculous Encounters in order to bring awareness to the fundraising efforts of the church and complex of San Michele Arcangelo.
Maremma is what you make it. It’s not an area with a ton of must-sees, which may be why this busy art lover finds it so appealing. On crossing the ...
Prato’s Macrolotto Zero, initially an urban industrial area and now one with a great concentration of Chinese immigrant workers, is the site of Rigenerazione Pop, a project to promote safety ...
The exhibition Miraculous Encounters: Pontormo from Drawing to Painting at Palazzo Pitti reunites, for the first time, two of Pontormo’s most important paintings with their preparatory drawings conserved ...
A moody walk through Florence Italy during the March 1 2018 snowfall. Video for The Florentine by Riprese Firenze in collaboration with Destination Florence.
This autumn, Palazzo Strozzi hosts a spectacular exhibition devoted to 16th-century Florentine art featuring works by Michelangelo, Bronzino and Pontormo.
People have been complaining about “the tourists” in Florence for at least a century, but crowds and their behaviour keep getting worse, not better. This year, city administrations are taking ...
Higher prices in summertime, early morning discounts & annual passes are part of a new fee structure for the Uffizi and Pitti
Don’t tell anyone, but I’ve got a new dealer in Maremma. An asparagus dealer. Her name is Irma and she defines herself as an “asparagaia”. The adjective is interesting ...
#TheFirstLast crowdfunding campaign by the Advancing Women Artists Foundation (AWA) ran from March 1 to April 16, 2017, and raised $65,000. Thank you!
When we were first married, my mother-in-law would call promptly every night as we were washing up the dinner dishes. “Pronto?” one of us would answer. “Cosa avete mangiato?” came ...
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze launches Il Teatro? Bella Storia! project to bring youths aged 16-21 to the theatre.
Here is an update of Fall 2016 art news in Italy, from North to South – the quirky grain Trump and visitor reactions to a show in Milan, a new ...
The viral VR game Pokemon Go was released today, July 15, in Italy on the local App Store, nine days after its US release crashed developer Niantic’s server due to ...
The museum visually tells the history of the institution of the Ospedale degli Innocenti through the centuries, from the Quattrocento to the present day, about which we spoke with ...
The new Museo degli Innocenti, or Innocenti Museum, will open to the public on June 24, 2016. We got a sneak preview of the inside before the display is entirely ...
The most awaited Florentine museum event of 2016 is the opening of the new Museo degli Innocenti in piazza SS. Annunziata, after a 12.8 million euro expansion project. To ...
The other day, my husband, who rarely uses idiomatic expressions, said that a colleague’s husband was truly a pasta d’uomo. Earlier in the day he had complained that an old ...
It’s fascinating how museum display and art history textbooks seal the fortune of certain artists, artworks, and even entire media. If I ask you to name a famous Renaissance sculpture ...
The show is titled ‘Fece di scoltura di legname e colorì’, Painted Wooden Sculpture in Quattrocento Florence, and is at the Uffizi Gallery from March 22 to August 28, 2016.