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Art and culture from Florence, Italy, focusing on exhibitions, museums, artisans and more.
Martin Holman reviews the exhibition at Villa Bardini celebrating the 20th century art historian responsible for canonising Caravaggio.
With the reopening of Villa La Quiete, we recount the story of the woman who, before the Electress Palatine, founded a conservatory there.
Once more accessible following decades of closure, the spaces host sinopias and detached frescoes.
A little known palace, part of the Bargello Museums complex, tells the Baroque history of one of Florence's most important families.
The renowned film director will be present at the international exhibition of contemporary art and design this October.
Marking the Max Mara Art Prize for Women's 20th anniversary, projects by nine winners are on display in the underground exhibition space at Palazzo Strozzi until August 31.
Hershey Felder speaks to Andrea Tofanelli, virtuoso and new Director of Jazz at Teatro Niccolini.
A new room at the Gabinetto Scientifico G.P. Vieusseux celebrates Florence's most representative 20th-century author.
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.
