It seems cliché to speak of reawakening after a long Winter, but with the amount of rain we got this year, putting England to shame, even a slight glimpse of Spring is extremely welcome. Easter came early this year and for a few hours on Sunday morning here in Maremma, the skies cleared, the sun …
Read the full story »Invitation to book presentation of “Invisible Women”
The Florentine Press and author Jane Fortune invite you to the official presentation of Invisible Women at the Biblioteca degli Uffizi
Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence
November 6 Biblioteca degli Uffizi 5pm
You can RSVP via the invitation on facebook!
Rome: “Calder” at Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Guest article by Flavia Grassetti, resident Roman art critic and law student; translated by arttrav.
Rome: October 23 2009: The first monographic show in Rome on the most innovative sculptor of the 20th century opens to the public today. “Calder” is on at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome from October 23 2009 until February 14 …
Florence film festival!
Florence: October 29 to December 17 2009
Florence is host to “50 days of international cinema”, with Festivals dedicated to a range of topics and nations including France, Finland, India, contemporary art and documentary film.
This is an opportunity to get out and do something different this fall, and to see cinematic offerings that you are unlikely …
Academic Conferences in Florence, Fall 2009
Fellow scholars in Florence. How often have you gone to the library and seen a poster for a conference that took place LAST WEEK that you would have liked to attend? How often is your inbox filled with last minute invitations from institutes offering seminars that, had you known in advance, you might have attended? …
The experience of viewing Michelangelo’s David
Charlene Thompson lives in New Brunswick, Canada. She loves Florence and writes this guest post about her experience.
DAVID. When I was a child, we would sing in church this little chorus. “Only a boy named David”. The words went something like:
“Only a boy named David, only a little sling. Only a boy named David, but …
Architecture in Budapest: Impressions of a plaster city
Budapest is a city built quickly, during a few spectacular years of wealth, ca 1880 to 1900. Hungarian architects of this period, forced to put up spectacular buildings overnight, became masters of stucco and plaster work, which covered homey brick bases. Buildings were never plain during this period, but always featured some kind of interesting …
Atlanta: Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius
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 madonnas. Hard to imagine those lines rendered in hard bronze.
The exhibition now on display at the HIGH museum of art …
Piazza Duomo re-opening bash photos
I took this photo standing in the middle of the road, on the yellow and white line across from the column of Saint Zanobius, who until today could not have protected me from being run over by busses, taxis, and motorini had I attempted such a stupid photo trick. I just had to do it. …
A British Sunday Lunch (in Italy) with Chef Paula Carrier
Here’s an announcement for a novel Sunday lunch in Italy – in case you’re sick of pasta!
“I’m tired of hearing people say that English food is rubbish so I’ve decided to do something about it and offer the best of English cuisine in a pub-lunch type atmosphere.”
Florence’s Piazza Duomo goes Pedestrian Only!
When was the last time you saw Piazza Duomo in Florence without the 2000 busses per day that pass by it? Perhaps you remember that in the 60s and 70s, cars could park right up beside the baptistry and around the back of the dome! Probably the last time this space was really quiet is …
Festival della Creativita 2009: it’s a wrap!
The Festival della Creativita 2009 in Florence Oct 15-18 was a blast. I had the opportunity to work there as part of the “social media team” that reported through text, photo, and video on the official festival pages that we created on facebook, twitter, youtube, and flickr. This gave me the authority, or rather the guts, to …
Piazza della Repubblica – In the Seat of Abundance
If you stay in Florence long enough, you’ll find a piazza–one where you feel at home, one that you’ll seek out after being away. On my first stay in Florence a few years ago, passing through the centrally located Piazza della Repubblica was part of my daily routine; I thought of it as a “throughway” …
Who is behind ArtTrav?
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! Learn more.art history »
Being a woman in Italy… in the Renaissance
Anytime any of my friends expresses a preference for having lived in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, I like to remind them that had they done so, their chances of dying in childbirth would be much higher than their likelihood of receiving any education. A 10 percent chance of dying in childbirth awaited each …
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Katrin Grote-Baker – colours and signs in Florence
I’m happy to announce the exhibit of a friend of mine’s work opening in Florence at Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery at via Guelfa n. 22/ a r, Florence, from October 6 to November 1, 2012. I personally love Katrin’s work and invested in one of her paintings a few years ago, so I’m looking forward …
