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Andrea Paoletti is an arts and culture photographer in Florence, Italy. He contributes to The Florentine on a regular basis as well as to a range of other magazines and publications. He runs ArtBlog (www.andreapaoletti.com).
Venture to the little-known Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi this winter to gaze at Late Baroque art.
Take a Sunday morning tour of Alfredo Pirri's art installation on the roof of Florence Opera House
Sesto Fiorentino did its own thing in atypical 2020 by a welcoming street art project. Sestreet 2020 culminated with Exit Enter’s Awakening of a Puppet, a mural in Sesto’s piazza ...
The Dream of Lady Florence Phillips exhibition currently showing at Siena’s Santa Maria della Scala features a collection of masterpieces belonging to the Johannesburg Art Gallery. The collection ...
Andrea Paoletti reports from the red carpet at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.
All photos by Andrea Paoletti. A nature-based exhibition to check out this June is The Immensity of the Universe in the Art of Giovanna Garzoni. Hosted in the ...
No longer the stronghold of tourists, locals rediscovered their city by bike or on foot as if Florence were a country town.
All photos by Andrea Paoletti On Saturday, October 12, Porta San Frediano opened to visitors for a guided tour, which will be repeated every Saturday this month. ...
Andrea Paoletti reports from the red carpet at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
The first comprehensive retrospective devoted to Andrea del Verrocchio opened at Palazzo Strozzi on March 9, with an accompanying section at the Bargello Museum, both running until July 14, 2019.
Made from plexiglass, sheet metal and coloured light emitting diodes, this year’s Christmas lights, aptly titled Winter Garden, at the city’s popular marketplace have been designed by visual artist Marco Lodola.
Despite the late-November winds and the chill in the air, if you looked up in the sky at any point yesterday in Florence, you could be forgiven for thinking it ...
Monte Altissimo is famous for the marble quarries where a certain Michelangelo selected the marble for his Renaissance sculpture. Today it’s a place of billion-dollar business and rife with opportunity ...
It’s perhaps time for the Rockin’1000 to consider a name change: nearly 1500 musicians came together for the giant group’s performance in Florence on July 21 at Franchi Stadium, ...
Photos of Day One of the IBCPC Participatory Dragon Boat Festival in Florence, Italy, as breast cancer survivors compete on the river Arno.
Forte Belvedere has opened its summer show, Gong, staging the works of Eliseo Mattiacci up on the regal ramparts of Florence’s fort. The Marche-born artist proved a ...
This year the IQA World Cup is taking place in Florence (fittingly, just after the final match of Florentine calcio storico, another near-otherworldly sport). 31 teams from around the world ...
Twenty-five years after the via dei Georgofili attack, a painting wrecked by the bombing, Bartolomeo Manfredi’s "Card Players", has returned to the Uffizi Galleries.
Until August 26, Palazzo Strozzi is hosting The Florence Experiment, a new site-specific project jointly devised by artist Carsten Höller and scientist Stefano Mancuso: an experiment combining art and science to study the interaction between plants and human beings.
Florence pays tribute to Silvano Campeggi, the famous Hollywoodian film poster artist, with an exhibition in the Palazzo Vecchio’s Sala d'Armi.
Follow the star to the church of Santo Spirito to wonder at the impressive nativity scene designed by Matera-born artist Francesco Artese.
The first retrospective on Marino Marini’s sculptures has taken up suitable residence at Palazzo Fabroni, in Pistoia.
The 30th Biennale Internazionale dell'Antiquariato international antiques fair, held at Palazzo Corsini, began on September 30.
