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Art and culture from Florence, Italy, focusing on exhibitions, museums, artisans and more.
The historic Tuscan winery returns to Milano Design Week until April 13 with the second edition of ORObyRUFFINO - The Art of Connection.
Situated in the Granai di Villa Mimbelli, the new museum was inaugurated this March.
Michelle Tarnopolsky reviews 'Sex and Solitude' at Palazzo Strozzi.
Queen of Naples, Spain and the West Indies, and sister-in-law to Napoleon Bonaparte, she perished in Florence in 1845.
Florence's premier fashion school announces a new Master's in Costume Design.
Carrying a Cloud is a whimsical exhibition worth seeing in the public spaces of the hotel near the Ponte Vecchio.
The so-called Church of Dante, doesn't house the poet's body, but that of his muse Beatrice. So, why is it not called the Church of Beatrice?
From the Keil Foundation created in London in 1932 through to the visionary project in Florence.
The art and antiques collector talks about her career and happy times in Italy.
Livia Frescobaldi speaks with Paola Vojnovic upon the release of her enticing coffee-table book 'Inside Florence'.
From "The Last of the Gold" to "Leaving", art collector Christian Levett talks us through the artworks he owns by Tracey Emin.
An American donor sponsors the "spring clean" of the 19th-century cenotaph of a brave, independent woman.
The Buonarroti family tombstone has been restored by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and Opera di Santa Croce, just in time for the artist's 550th birthday.
A composter walks us through the ways the Renaissance city and its landmarks inspired his debut album.
An update on Accademia Women: Violante, the ongoing project restoring the artist's work from the Certosa di Firenze.
The altarpiece is once again on display in San Marco Museum until September, when it will be moved to Palazzo Strozzi for the upcoming Angelico exhibition.
No absurd sculpture or silly monument, but a majestic marble Leo X, the pope who “invented” Versilia, is to be installed in Pietrasanta.
The gardens were created between 1724 and 1727 at the behest of the Electress Palatine.
We introduce you to the legendary 88-year-old weaver who is currently hosting an exhibition of her work in Prato.
A little Florence-based magazine that existed under fascism had an outsized impact on Italy's literary scene.
The show provides an opportunity to see the rooms of the Istituto de’ Bardi.
