Exhibition on view through January 23, 2011
The Costume Gallery at the Pitti Palace in Florence
Today’s guest post is an excerpt from 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, by Susan Van Allen
Survey: Your Favorite Artwork in Florence?
What a loaded question, right? No matter what your answer might be, there will always be another piece of art, a painting, or a sculpture, that is worth telling the world about. Or, maybe after a second or two of thought, you might find this question unanswerable. From the austere frescoes in the Convent San [...]
A Road Retraveled: Boboli Gardens
Today’s guest post is from Simone di Santi of A Road Retraveled who takes us around the Boboli Gardens in Florence. A Road Retraveled travel web series strives to empower, educate and encourage viewers to travel. Their pathway to education includes focusing on video awareness by producing both short and full length travel shows of [...]
One Evening In Florence
The white Fiat was parked on Via della Ninna along side the Palazzo Vecchio. I was intent on leaving Florence. Intent on getting out of town and putting the whole damn place behind me. I’m a sucker for a pretty face. If that pretty face happens to be the lead-in to a musician with an [...]
Photo Of The Day: Palazzo Vecchio
Sitting on the steps of the Palazzo Vecchio underneath one of the copies of Michelangelo’s David in the Piazza Signoria, I noticed it was a warm night in Florence.
Il Caffe!
Although coffee was a subject of Arabian lore as early as 800 BC, coffee first made its appearance in Italy around 1570 through the port of Venice. About one hundred years later the first caffès, short for caffèterias, opened there, then in Padua, Florence, and Rome. Some of the oldest caffès in Florence are on the Piazza Republica, while one of the most well known is the Caffè Rivoire on the Piazza della Signoria – which is actually more well known for its hot chocolate.
Convent San Marco
Located in Piazzo San Marco, the Convento di San Marco was home to more than one Renaissance monk/artist, but probably the most humbly famous of them all was Fra Angelico, who painted a number of frescoes on the convent’s walls.
Il Bargello
Like a lot of buildings in Florence, The Bargello can be deceiving. The interior seems much larger than the outside lets on and because of its fortress construction, it’s very easy to think that the rooms inside this building will be dark and dank. Not so.
Galleria dell’Accademia
The Accademia di Belle Arti is not only a gallery museum that holds Michelangelo’s most famous work, The David. The Accadamia di Belle Arti is also an art school and library.
