La torre, tec.mista su cartone, cm 150 x 100, 2010 The works in this exhibition are the most recent works created by the artist specifically for the museum Pisa Lucca. Included are more than twenty works using different techniques – drawings on paper and sculptures in Lu.CCA Lounge, and paintings and installations in Lu.C.C.A. Underground [...]
Survey: Your Favorite Souvenir From Tuscany?
Souvenirs can run the gamut from expensive to cheap, tacky to really cool. But they also take up space in the suitcase. Florence is a place that has wonderful souvenirs – leather jackets from the market, jewelry from the Ponte Vecchio, art books from the Uffizi, napkins with cafe logos, and then of course, your [...]
On My Way To Tuscany: Part III
My days in Finale Ligure.
On My Way To Tuscany: Part II
Arriving in Torino.
On My Way To Tuscany: Part I
Leaving Paris.
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 [...]
A Road Retraveled: A Weekend in Cortona
Part I: Part II: Today’s guest post is from Simone di Santi of A Road Retraveled who takes us away for a weekend to the Tuscan hill town of Cortona. 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 [...]
A Road Retraveled: A Weekend in Cortona
Part 1: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGYhqlEIzyw&hl=en_US&fs=1] PartII: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOviF6eCxoI&hl=en_US&fs=1] Today’s guest post is from Simone di Santi of A Road Retraveled who takes us away for a weekend in the Tuscan hill town of Cortona. Next Week: Episode #102 which is of the rest of the weekend in Cortona. A Road Retraveled travel web series strives to [...]
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.
