ART + CULTURE

Art and culture from Florence, Italy, focusing on exhibitions, museums, artisans and more.

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Roberto Longhi: the tastemaker with a penetrating style

Martin Holman reviews the exhibition at Villa Bardini celebrating the 20th century art historian responsible for canonising Caravaggio.

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Eleonora Ramirez de Montalvo

With the reopening of Villa La Quiete, we recount the story of the woman who, before the Electress Palatine, founded a conservatory there.

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Gallery of Frescoes at the Innocenti Museum reopens

Once more accessible following decades of closure, the spaces host sinopias and detached frescoes.

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Casa Martelli: a Baroque jewel box

A little known palace, part of the Bargello Museums complex, tells the Baroque history of one of Florence's most important families.

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Tim Burton receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Florence Biennale

The renowned film director will be present at the international exhibition of contemporary art and design this October.

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Time for Women! at the Strozzina

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.

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Jazz at Niccolini: an interview with Andrea Tofanelli

Hershey Felder speaks to Andrea Tofanelli, virtuoso and new Director of Jazz at Teatro Niccolini.

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Getting to know Vasco Pratolini

A new room at the Gabinetto Scientifico G.P. Vieusseux celebrates Florence's most representative 20th-century author.

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How to make your balcony bloom

Consider your space and plan accordingly.

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Ruffino at Milano Design Week

The historic Tuscan winery returns to Milano Design Week until April 13 with the second edition of ORObyRUFFINO - The Art of Connection. 

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Medici Museum of Livorno opens

Situated in the Granai di Villa Mimbelli, the new museum was inaugurated this March.

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Tracey Emin: the triumph of older women

Michelle Tarnopolsky reviews 'Sex and Solitude' at Palazzo Strozzi.

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Julie Clary Bonaparte

Queen of Naples, Spain and the West Indies, and sister-in-law to Napoleon Bonaparte, she perished in Florence in 1845.

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Polimoda teams up with award-winning costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini

Florence's premier fashion school announces a new Master's in Costume Design.

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Gabriele Picco at Gallery Hotel Art

Carrying a Cloud is a whimsical exhibition worth seeing in the public spaces of the hotel near the Ponte Vecchio.

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Dante, Beatrice + the Church of Santa Margherita dei Cerchi

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?

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Carved in time: the Keil family legacy leads to Keil Space

From the Keil Foundation created in London in 1932 through to the visionary project in Florence.

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The Italian Collector: Bec Astley Clarke

The art and antiques collector talks about her career and happy times in Italy.

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Inside Florence: an interview with Livia Frescobaldi

Livia Frescobaldi speaks with Paola Vojnovic upon the release of her enticing coffee-table book 'Inside Florence'.

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In the bedroom: Tracey Emin and The Levett Collection

From "The Last of the Gold" to "Leaving", art collector Christian Levett talks us through the artworks he owns by Tracey Emin.

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Monument to Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern restored

An American donor sponsors the "spring clean" of the 19th-century cenotaph of a brave, independent woman.

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Michelangelo’s tombstone restored

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.

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Portraits of Florence: musical reflections on a timeless city

A composter walks us through the ways the Renaissance city and its landmarks inspired his debut album.

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Decoding Violante Siriès Cerroti: mapping + missing paint

An update on Accademia Women: Violante, the ongoing project restoring the artist's work from the Certosa di Firenze.

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