Skip Pompeii, go to Herculaneum
August 27, 2010 – 10:50 am | View Comments

I was searching through some photos from field trips that I led for UGA in 2008 in a bout of nostalgia brought on by an upcoming visit from my friends Roy and Terry who were …

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art history

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Florence

A renaissance art historian’s guide to Florence through its history, monuments, and people.

Fuori Porta

“Fuori Porta” literally means outside the city gates. Anywhere outside Florence!

Rome

An art historian’s approach to the monuments of the eternal city.

Tuscany

Art, sea, mountains, islands, shopping, hiking, culture… Tuscany has it all.

My 3 best kept “arttrav”-el secrets for Florence Italy
January 28, 2010 – 9:58 pm | View Comments
My 3 best kept “arttrav”-el secrets for Florence Italy

I have been tagged in the “My 3 best kept travel secrets game” that Katie from Tripbase started. Not only am I thrilled to have been chosen to contribute secrets, I’m happy that this has …

Libraries in Florence editable map (Biblioteche di Firenze)
January 25, 2010 – 11:30 am | View Comments
Libraries in Florence editable map (Biblioteche di Firenze)

At a conference on the use of internet by libraries, archives and museums that I attended the other day (live blog here), Elena Farinelli brought up an interesting fact: if you search “Biblioteca Firenze” on …

Touring Tuscany in a Tiny vehicle
January 24, 2010 – 7:14 pm | View Comments
Touring Tuscany in a Tiny vehicle

Here’s another pre-trip research post from Robert Kimberly, who likes strange things, and apparently also likes small cars.
As an American, huge cars are almost a birthright. My first cars were a 1950 Mercury …

Mediocre Trattoria in Florence – via The Onion
January 24, 2010 – 10:09 am | View Comments
Mediocre Trattoria in Florence – via The Onion

I don’t normally post “retweets” as blog posts, but this is the funniest thing I have read in a long time – an article in The Onion about a “mediocre trattoria” in Florence that parodies …

Landscape art in Tuscany: sculpture in fields
January 20, 2010 – 7:31 pm | View Comments
Landscape art in Tuscany: sculpture in fields

Some art has gotten too big to hang on a wall. Perhpas due to a new feeling for nature, some artists prefer the countryside to the city for the display of their works, and fields …

Traveling Strange: A Collector of Eccentric Attractions Comes to Florence
January 18, 2010 – 1:30 pm | View Comments
Traveling Strange: A Collector of Eccentric Attractions Comes to Florence

Guest post by Robert of Neon Poisoning, who is looking for weird things to see in Florence.

Mom’s Milan Day Trip (from Florence)
January 14, 2010 – 1:50 pm | View Comments
Mom’s Milan Day Trip (from Florence)

Contributed to arttrav by my Mom, Audrey Korey, aka Staff Writer (new hire).
It has rained in Florence almost every day since we arrived before Christmas. The weather was so bad we couldn’t make many of …

Edward Hopper exhibit in Milan (and Rome)
January 13, 2010 – 10:52 am | View Comments
Edward Hopper exhibit in Milan (and Rome)

At Milan’s Palazzo Reale is the first major retrospective in Italy dedicated to the American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967), the famous realist painter. This show moves to Rome in February so if you cannot see …

Saturday night at Le Murate
January 12, 2010 – 12:20 pm | View Comments
Saturday night at Le Murate

This Saturday Jan 16 2010 is a very special PREVIEW night at Le Murate. If you’re in or near Florence, plan to swing by and check out this new space. Well, not so new space… …

Stay where you eat
December 30, 2009 – 10:29 am | View Comments
Stay where you eat

We have a new guideline for accomodation when traveling: stay where you eat. This differs from “eat where you stay” in a clever inversion that fully excludes the dreaded hotel restaurant.
A few months ago we …

History of the Palazzo Vecchio (funny video)
December 27, 2009 – 11:07 pm | View Comments
History of the Palazzo Vecchio (funny video)

This video was made by a Syracuse University Florence student, Remi Evans. It was her final project for a course called Masterpieces of Renaissance Art, a favourite of students for many years, taught by the …

Rent a Tuscan villa / restaurant, cook your own dinner
December 23, 2009 – 12:00 pm | View Comments
Rent a Tuscan villa / restaurant, cook your own dinner

I’ve been meaning to go check out this place in the Florentine hills called Dulcamara where you can cook your own meal OR hire a caterer. It’s the same place that Chef Paula Carrier has …

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