12/02/2009Caterina and Maria de' Medici: Women in power. The return to Florence of two Queens of FranceDatesFrom: 24/10/2008 - To: 08/02/2009The event is a tribute to Caterina and Maria de’ Medici (Family Tree), queens of France yet both imbued with a fresh and innovative cultural approach. They were energetic regents: two women in power, both controversial, both emblematic, and both...
12/02/2009Love, Art and Grace, Raphael, The Madonna of the Goldfinch restoredfrom 23 nov 08 to 1 mar 09With restoration complete, the Madonna del cardellino is once again on public view. Our preference, however, was not to display the Madonna as “a masterpiece reborn” in a solo appearance that would have reduced it to the level of a fetish or venerable relic. Instead,...
13/02/2009Díaita. Heath rules in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in FlorenceFrom February 13th to June 26th, 2010 the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence will open the new exhibition “Díaita. Heath rules in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana” an exposition concerning life style and diet as strategies to ensure physical...
02/04/2009The living marblesBernini and the Baroque portrait of FlorenceGian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was perhaps the most prominent artist of the entire period of Italian Baroque art. Being a versatile artist, he worked as a sculptor, painter, and architect, especially in Rome – a city which, in those years, experienced...
30/05/2009Leonardo Da Vinci's machines on display in Florencefrom 30th May 2009 at 09:30 a.m. to 31st December 2010 at 07:30 p.mThe exhibition of the interactive machines reproduced from Leonardo Da Vinci's codes can be found in the Galleria Michelangiolo in Florence, in via Cavour, 21. "Le Macchine di Leonardo", the world’s biggest private collection...