Florence - Finestre sull'Arte

Florence, Palazzo Vecchio excavations with remains of Roman theater return open to visitors after five years

The Florentine Civic Museums, in collaboration with Fondazione MUS.E, are reopening to the public, after five years, the archaeological excavations of Palazzo Vecchio, spaces that preserve important evidence of Florentine urban history from Roman tim...
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Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies: symbols and theology behind the monsters

We owe to Giorgio Vasari the title by which one of Andrea del Sarto 's (Andrea d'Agnolo; Florence, 1486 - 1530) greatest masterpieces is known, the Madonna of the Harpies, a panel more than two meters high that is kept in the Uffizi and is placed at ...
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Florence, Feb. 1, 2026 ticket prices increase for Civic Museums due to rising cost of operation

As of Feb. 1, 2026, ticket prices for the Civic Museums of Florence will increase: an adjustment made necessary by the rising cost of management, reads the note on the website of the City of Florence. While changing the rates, the Cumune specifies, h...
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Over 120,000 visitors reached at Beato Angelico exhibition in Florence

The exhibition Beato Angelico in Florence, open to the public until Jan. 25, 2026 in the two venues of Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco, has already reached more than 120,000 visitors-a record number two months after its opening. Produced i...
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The "Castle of Sandokan," starring on Rai Uno, is located in Tuscany and is the Castle of Sammezzano

The Castle of Sammezzano, a famous example of Orientalist architecture located in the hamlet of Leccio, in the municipality of Reggello (Florence), is coming back to life on the small screen with the remake of the series Sandokan, airing on Rai Uno f...
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Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia welcomes two statues from the classical age on deposit from the Archaeological Museum

The Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence and the Bargello Museums are welcoming two marble sculptures from the classical period: theApollo citaredo and theNaked Hero with Horn, which came from the National Archaeological Museum in Florence and were gr...
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At the Museo Novecento in Florence, Italy's first major exhibition dedicated to Helen Chadwick

From November 25, 2025 to March 1, 2026, the Museo Novecento in Florence presents Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures, the first major Italian exhibition dedicated to one of the most radical and influential British artists of the second half of the 20th c...
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A nightmare for Botticelli. If the painter is accused of inventing feminicide.

As of October 19, 2025, French radio stations are broadcasting Un mauvais rêve de SandroBotticelli (A Bad Dream of Botticelli https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/allons-y-voir/un-mauvais-reve-de-sandro-botticelli-6063000). The fir...
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