LA SPECOLA Museum of Natural History has reopened this week after 400 days of closure in a much awaited event to mark the 250th anniversary of the first opening of this science museum. This mu...
The end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 has seen enough important Florence Museum news to warrant a dedicated article. From the opening of the municipal collection’s deposits to an all-new...
NAPLES and I were not immediate friends. When I first visited 25 years ago in a study abroad class, we were so severely cautioned and tutored against the city’s supposed criminality that we ...
Last year I abandoned Florence’s concrete suburbs and moved to the charming historical center of FIESOLE, THE ROMAN HILL TOWN THAT OVERLOOKS FIRENZE. Fiesole maintains a charming small-town ...
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A while ago a cousin visited and I had an hour with her before we went to dinner. After that, she’d be on her own in Florence for a few days and, as a resident recovering art historian, I fe...
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In the summer after my third year of university, I signed up for a 6-week TRAVELLING COURSE IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART HISTORY. Little did I know how that experience would change my life. Two ...
With some 6 million visitors per year, the Vatican Museums is one of the busiest attractions in Italy. Not built as a museum but as a Papal residence, it’s huge and somewhat dispersive, but ...
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The MEDICI family name is intertwined with the history of Florence: with the enormous gains of their bank, the Medici became some of the most important PATRONS OF ART during the Italian Renais...