Category: Florence exhibitions

Photo exhibition in Florence: National Museum of Photography celebrates Alinari

Photo exhibition in Florence: National Museum of Photography celebrates Alinari

Florence, cultural and artistic centre, hosts an unmissable photo exhibition until 6th January 2013: “Gli Archivi Alinari e la sintassi del mondo. Omaggio a Italo Calvino”.
Rencontres d’Arles and Alinari Foundation celebrate 160th anniversary of “Fratelli Alinari” with an exhibition which combines literature and photography. Christophe Berthoud, the young curator of the showcase, uses Alinari’s archive like a repository of stories.

Tuscany vacations: Impruneta’s Festival

Tuscany vacations: Impruneta’s Festival

Impruneta is a city near Florence, known for the traditional Saint Luke festival, which celebrates the picture with miraculous powers preserved in the Basilica. To emphasize Impruneta’s uses, the municipality in collaboration with Florence organize “La fiera del Granduca, Impruneta, 18 ottobre 1618”, exhibition centred on Filippo Napoletano’s painting (conserved in Private Residence of Cosimo II in Pitti Palace), which will end on 6th January 2013.

Florence art – I Magnifici Tre: jewel-books of Lorenzo De’ Medici

Florence art – I Magnifici Tre: jewel-books of Lorenzo De’ Medici

Florence is reconfirmed as source of beauties and cradle of art, as it will host a unique exhibition until 20th October 2012: “Magnifici tre, jewel-books of Lorenzo de’ Medici”. These illuminated codes, ordered by Lorenzo the Magnificent for his daughters, are masterpieces of Renaissance, and they’ll be showed for the first time after five centuries.

Florence art: the Myth, the Sacred, the Portrait: paintings from the Palatine Gallery’s repositories

Florence art: the Myth, the Sacred, the Portrait: paintings from the Palatine Gallery’s repositories

Sala delle Nicchie in the Palatine Gallery hosts the exhibition “The Myth, the Sacred, the Portrait: paintings of the Palatine Gallery’s repositories”. Until 22th December 2012 you’ll have the chance to visit this short anthology, designed to enable public to approach an inexhaustible and always surprising artistic heritage, the result of the lengthy collecting of the Medici and their connection with the city.