Review of the exhibit Ferdinando I de’ Medici 1549-1609 Maiestate Tantum, Florence 2009
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“Fuori Porta” literally means outside the city gates. This section includes anything outside of Florence and Rome: Tuscany, rest of Italy, even all of Europe.
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Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, ©1976 Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by Permission.
Arrttrav is pleased to publish the following press release, an invitation to a concert by Philip Glass that will take place at the Accademia Gallery in conjunction with the exhibit “Robert Maplethorpe - la perfezione nella forma”(on display until Sept. 27 2009).
Philip Glass in a performance of the etudes and other work for solo piano
July 13 2009 9.00 pm
Galleria dell’Accademia, via Ricasoli 60, Firenze
On July 13, at 9 pm, in Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia, Philip Glass will give a solo piano concert in front of Michelangelo’s David. After the extraordinary success of the Patti Smith Reading, the museum offers another important initiative associated with the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe. Perfection in Form. Read the full story »
The 2009 theme of the annual Beyond Media festival for contemporary architecture and media is “VISIONS“. This theme will be played out in various forms (videos, round table discussions, a light installation, and non-moving visuals) …
I know of a house for sale in San Venanzano, Umbria. I kinda want it: that’s the town there beyond the sunflowers. I’ve been following this couple’s story for years through their blog and the …
“Michelangelo’s first painting”, the Torment of Saint Anthony, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York June 16, 2009-September 7, 2009 in the European Paintings Galleries, 2nd floor. It is on …
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Italian beaches are a very civilized affair. Most of central italy’s beaches are sectioned up into “Stabilimenti balneari”, or bathing establishments. These consist of a hut or structure with a bar, bathrooms, shower and changing …
I’m reprinting this as news because many people ask me about getting into the Vasari Corridor. The information on the official site is out of date and I’m not sure how to get in other …
This post contains information about how/where to buy tickets to the Uffizi; special summer 2009 opening hours; a currently available card that gets you into Florence museums, and a proposed “city card”.
A city-wide museum card is …
Just posted… an interview with yours truly on Wandering Educators! Jessie Voigts asked me some great questions about arttrav and traveling in general. In particular she asks: “How can travelers best prepare for such a …
Pope Pius II Piccolomini visited his hometown of Corsignano in 1459 and found out that he’d grown up in a bit of a dump. He promoted it to the level of city-state, imposed upon it …
Bartolommeo Ammanati’s Neptune Fountain has been the subject of repeated attacks over the centuries, some of which were intentionally made to offend the ugly mass of marble, others unwittingly participating in a historic tradition.
The most recent …
With warm thanks to Betty and Salvatore at the Azienda Agricola La Torraccia (Regello, FI).
And to Toni Lydecker for organizing our fun outing in the context of research for her next book. (Her new book, …
J.M. Pasquesi is a Rome expert for radio shows such as Rick Steves’ Radio, a contributing editor to a variety of guides and magazines, and is the author of award-winning Rome with Kids: an Insider’s …
Judy, aka Divina Cucina, is an authority on all things edible. She’s run the best cooking school in Florence for many years, and now has written a fabulous new cookbook of 93 Tuscan- Husband-approved recipes. …
Jane Fortune, Founder and Chair of the Florence Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, has been digging around the storage areas of the Pitti Palace looking for works by female artists. …
A guru of social networking, Laura De Benedetto has her finger on the pulse of Florence’s most active residents through FlorenceIN, the face-to-face network that she succesfully created last year. With her own inexhaustible energy …
In the late 1420’s the Operai del Duomo di Firenze decided upon a program that, likely from its inception, included two “organ pulpits” over the two sacristy doors at the apsidal end of the Duomo …
