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Art and culture from Florence, Italy, focusing on exhibitions, museums, artisans and more.
After four centuries, the monumental statues of Ferdinando I and Cosimo II return to the spotlight following a conservation project, while reliquaries from the Medici Crypt find a new home in the chapel.
After a major conservation campaign and a starring role in last year’s blockbuster exhibition, Fra Angelico’s early masterpiece is back where it belongs.
Throughout the centuries, some individuals have been fortunate—or at times unfortunate enough—to witness history in the making and have felt compelled to write about what they saw. One such favoured ...
To engage with this Pistoia-born artist achieves what Belvedere Firenze is all about: a cultural program aimed at increasing awareness of heritage and community.
The tormentone is back—and it’s as irresistible as it is exasperating.
For generations of Florentines, the Rifredi movie theatre has been far more than a place to watch films.
Swedish entrepreneur John Werich continues to bring culture back to the village in the Valdambra hills, near Bucine.
A tour of Florence’s Homeric hotspots ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s latest film 'The Odyssey'.
Historic Gianni Bono collection of more than 800,000 items donated to the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.
A photography exhibition celebrates 250 years of U.S. independence and the ties between Florence and America.
Though he planned a grand family tomb in Naples, Viceroy Pedro Álvarez de Toledo was ultimately buried in Florence’s Cathedral.
A secret city within the city, hidden in details that few ever notice.
Donna Malin has been awarded the award in recognition of her support for the restoration of the funerary monument of the Countess of Albany in the Castellani Chapel of Santa Croce.
Friends of Florence-funded conservation project reveals one of the basilica’s most significant devotional images.
Two of the best-known images of the Italian Renaissance are now engaged in a direct dialogue at the Uffizi Galleries.
The prized bronze will move to Palazzo Strozzi for the Broken. The Power of Fragments from September 25, 2026 to January 24, 2027.
150 photographs from the Florentine archive from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s are on display at Villa Bardini through October 18.
From Bill Armstrong’s Sibyls of Siena Cathedral to Philippe Halsman’s Jump! Photography in Motion in Volterra.
Read more about the Florence-born creative in the latest The Curators’ Quaderno from Calliope Arts and The Florentine Press.
Tracing the life of Edith Brooks Farnsworth, the accomplished American nephrologist who settled in Antella, Italy, after retiring in 1967.
Erii Nakajima reflects on community, culture and the making of Lailac in Florence.
Students, volunteers and local residents are helping to reintegrate collections of texts that lost their cataloguing references in the chaos of 1966.
Public invited to watch live conservation project from May 12.
Tracksuits, fascist propaganda and UFOs: two brothers whose modernism never resolved its contradictions.
