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Growing By Numbers at the Venice Biennale
Milano’s skyscrapers are the protagonists in a project that took place between December 2010 and April 2011 in which large (9 meters tall), bright red LED numbers were placed on them. The buildings involved were both historical (like the Stazione Garibaldi) and new or still under construction (Cesar Pelli in Porta Nuova).
In “Postcards from Growing …
Villa Gioli (Pisa) and the Macchiaioli movement
On a recent visit to the Galleria d’Arte Moderna at the Pitti Palace, I came across a group of paintings with bucolic images of the country, and the landscape struck me as being somehow familiar. What a lovely surprise to discover, upon reading the wall text, that they were the work of Francesco Gioli, one …
Art, Patronage, and Economics – reflections around Florens 2012
When we learn about Renaissance Florence, one of the first things any professor will introduce is banking and merchant culture, which permitted amassing wealth, which in turn permitted the commission of art and architecture, elaborate fashions, and imported luxury goods. The Medici family was not the first major patron, but it is the most famous, …
Women in Renaissance Art – 1 week art history course in Florence
The British Institute of Florence is offering a one week seminar on Women in Renaissance Art from March 5-9, 2012 and March 4-8, 2013 led by Prof. Susan Madocks Lister (so if you miss it this year, you can plan for next year!).
Designed for a general audience and with no exams or papers to worry …
Palazzo Davanzati for Italian kids
The Italian youth magazine Focus Junior and the MIBAC (ministry for the arts) have come up with an interesting collaboration to promote twelve lesser-known museums in Italy, amonst them the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence for the month of February 2012. In Focus Junior magazine this month there’s a detachable fold-out map and guide to the …
Art film festival – Lo schermo dell’arte Firenze 2011
I am really looking forward to the 2011 edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte, the art film part of the 50 giorni di cinema internazionale, a series of thematic film festivals that take place each Fall in Florence, Italy. Of course the art films are my favourite. Last year we perched at the edge of our …
Pistoia Underground Festival – September 16-30 2011
It’s not every day that you hear about a really hip and youthful event in Tuscany. We’re inundated with classical concerts (and I have nothing against that!) and Renaissance art (ditto), but contemporary culture needs to be encouraged… and that’s something that the Pistoia Undergound Festival is doing!
I’m happy to post some information about this …
What the internet can learn from the printing press
Everything has been done before. The fact that we keep repeating ourselves is undeniable by anyone who observes any sector of human life, from fashion, which is constantly undergoing revivals, to art which seldom says anything new. With all the innovation out there, we’re constantly bombarded by new social networks and new products we didn’t …
On Writing (about Italy) & the blogger roundtable
This is a kind of personal post. And it’s so rare and out of character that there is not even a category on this blog into which I can easily slot it. But I have to write it. Here’s why.
Today is the first post in an “Italy blogging Roundtable” to which I have been invited. …
Chasing Bianca Capello in Florence
Florence’s most notorious scarlet woman left an elegant mark on the city that loved to hate her.
Arttrav is pleased to host this innovative and well-researched article by US-based writer Joanne O’Sullivan.
From her portrait on walls of the Uffizi gallery, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany stared out at me, begging to be reconsidered. Reviled in her …
Women and Art bibliography
In 2009 I taught a course called “Women and Art in Early Modern Italy” and I realized that some of this material could be useful to researchers or students online. I’m writing up some reflections from the course for “Three Pipe Blog” (link forthcoming) and figured I’d donate the bibliography to the public here on …
Tod’s sponsors 25 million euro Colosseum restoration
Diego della Valle for Tod’s (the fancy shoe company) has pledged 25 million euros for the 15-year restoration of the Colosseum. The proposal, made last August to the Soprintendenza, has been accepted and announced officially on January 21st 2011. The complete restoration of the building and the development of a new lighting scheme will be …
ArtTrav is a blog about expat life, art, and travel in Italy and Europe. I am Alexandra Korey, a Florence-based art historian turned blogger.
My goal is to help travelers and residents like you experience countries through culture and local living. If it takes geeky, long articles to do that, so be it! 
