Empoli - Finestre sull'Arte

Empoli hosts a public art project with six major artists: here's Boule de Neige

Empoli is hosting a new public art itinerary that weaves urban regeneration, collective participation and reflection on the city landscape. From Nov. 9, 2025 to Feb. 15, 2026, the Boule de Neige project, promoted by the Municipality of Empoli and cur...
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Empoli rediscovers its modern soul: an exhibition chronicles art between 1925 and 1960

From November 8, 2025 to February 15, 2026, theAntico Ospedale San Giuseppe in Empoli will host the exhibition Provincia Novecento. Art in Empoli 1925-1960, sponsored by the Municipality of Empoli and the Fondazione CR Firenze. The exhibition, curate...
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Masolino in Empoli, restored St. Ivo among the pupils in the church of Santo Stefano

On the evening of Friday, June 2025, the restoration of thefresco depicting Saint Ivo among the Pupils by Masolino da Panicale (Panicale, 1383 - Florence, 1440), one of the fundamental figures of the early Italian Renaissance, was presented to the pu...
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Masolino's Year at the Dawn of the Renaissance. What the Empoli exhibition looks like

Carlo Bertelli was convinced that Masolino da Panicale's voice had begun to take on an "already entirely personal" timbre in Empoli's works. The scholar had in mind especially Christ in Pity, the monumental fresco that a then already 40-year-old Tomm...
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Masolino's Christ in Pity, the 15th-century masterpiece that inspired Bill Viola

"Neo-Giottesque locutions": with this expression, the great art historian Roberto Longhi referred to the figures that appear in the very famous Christ in Pieta by Masolino da Panicale (real name Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini, Panicale, 1383 - Floren...
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