Firenze
"Secret" Giotto uncovered
Researchers in Florence using state-of-the-art techniques have been able to see original details that have not been seen for centuries in some of Giotto’s paintings...
Read MoreWhat's fashion about?
“What’s Fashion About?” is the title of the 77th Pitti Uomo [Pitti for Men] Fashion Show which is taking place at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence until 15th January. This is the event that opens the international fashion fair season every year and exhibitors from all segments of the fashion industry participate...
Read MoreSnow - Florence
The flakes started falling on Friday afternoon. By late evening, Florence was wrapped in silvery silence, the snow glinting in the lamplight.
Read MoreForget Van Gogh's ear - it's Galileo's molar
A private art collector who recently purchased a seventeenth-century box containing unidentified “artefacts” must have had a gruesome surprise when he opened it, for it contained a human tooth, a thumb and a middle finger, later authenticated as having belonged to none other than Galileo Galilei.
Read MoreOops! Oh, no it's the one we borrowed..
Have you ever accidentally damaged an item you’d borrowed? Are you familiar with that hollow feeling in your stomach as you gaze at the splintered glass of your neighbour’s crystal trifle dish on your kitchen floor? Then you’ll know how custodians at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery felt when they discovered that a painting on loan from France had fallen down during Friday – Saturday night.
Read MoreBook of the week: "Dark Water: Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence" by Robert Clark
Memoir meets history and a soul-searching reflection over our relationship with art in Clark’s gripping take of the flood that devastated Florence in 1966...
Read MoreMichelangelo's David
500 years ago Michelangelo unveiled the statue of David to a thrilled Florence. Mark Callaghan describes the creation of a masterpiece
Read MoreLouvre loans rare Renaissance masterpieces to Florence
A priceless selection of drawings identified as the work of some of Italy's greatest Renaissance luminaries has gone on show in Florence in the building where Michelangelo once lived.
Read MoreThe battle of the Centaurs - the raging torments of a teenage sculptor
Aleid Ford examines this early work by Michelangelo
Read MoreJapanese prof hands inheritance to Florence church
Frescoes in the famous Florentine church of Santa Croce are to get a facelift thanks to a Renaissance-mad Japanese art history professor who has handed over his entire inheritance for the project.
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