Events
The Vasari Corridor hosts a renowned series of self-portraits by master painters from the sixteenth to the twentieth-first century. Arranged chronologically, this collection was started by Cardinal Leopoldo de’ Medici in the mid-sev…
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The city of the Renaissance makes room for the nineteenth century. On April 4 and 5, Florence’s most renowned nineteenth-century scholars will gather together to present a lecture series called Félicie de Fauveau: the workshop of a Frenc…
Art by women is a largely undiscovered part of the city’s heritage—why not change that?
At 12pm on Monday, October 15, 2012 there will be the presentation of a new book published by The Florentine Press called Art by Women in Florence:…
The wine tasting event of the year is back in Florence on September 21-22, 2012, and The Florentine, as media partner, has 10 WineCards to give away. Read on to find out more about the event and how to win a WineCard and participate free to the ev…
From 9am to 4.30pm on Friday, March 2, art historians and aficionados are gearing up for Women Artists of Early Modern Italy: New Archival Studies, presented by the ‘Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists in the Age of the Medici’, T…
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Jingle bells, jingle bells… and what the heck am I going to put under the tree?! The Florentine Press to the rescue! Our holiday gift sets will be sure to satisfy every Italy lover and expat on your list.
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Irene Parenti Duclos, an eighteenth-century Florentine painter and copyist, climbed up the scaffolding at the Church of S.S. Annunziata and copied Andrea del Sarto’s famous fresco of the Madonna del Sacco. For a woman at the time, this wa…
Success for last night’s encounter organized by The Florentine at Le Murate. With around 50 people in attendance – some Italians, lots of TF readers – the discussion was friendly despite differing opinions about the t…
On April 26, the former prison known as Le Murate, now fully renovated, was officially opened to the public, with hours that span from noon to midnight daily and a rich calendar of creative and cultural activities through June. Florence…
The Florentine Press presents the second edition of Jane Fortune’s book To Florence con Amore. First published in 2007, Fortune, The Florentine’s own culture editor, suggested 77 ways to love the city. The expanded 2011 edition now inclu…
