Articles in art... that travels!
When the Bardini Museum reopened last year the most remarkable aspect of the restoration was the return of Stefano Bardini’s blue walls. Bardini, a 19th century art dealer, left his show room and gallery, housed …
Sorry Blackberry users, but iphones these days are so popular, even the cat has one. If you’re traveling in Italy with your iphone you can take advantage of these three FREE apps to help you …
A guest post from my Mom, lucky duck went to New York!
This exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City closes April 18, 2010
A few weeks ago we visited Manhattan. Actually we stayed in …
Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo drawings and the ancestral home, the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. The exhibition explores new …
Name one sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci. Stuck? Me too. Leonardo is the great Renaissance man, the inventor, the draftsman whose wild lines imply motion and cannot be followed, the painter whose sfumato made mysterious …
Raphael’s “Woman with Unicorn” is one of 48 works from Rome’s Borghese Gallery on their way to Japan, where they will stay 6 months at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto and the Metropolitan Musem of Tokyo …
“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 …
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. …
Donatello’s Bronze David is the highlight of Florence’s Bargello Museum.
Recently restored on-site in the museum so as not to remove it from view, it is now in Milan for a short visit on occasion of …
July 16, 2009-February 8, 2010: The Getty Villa in Malibu CA is host to an exhibition that centers around an important loan from the Museo Archaeologico di Firenze, the famous Chimaera of Arezzo. The Etruscan bronze (4th c …
