Florence - Finestre sull'Arte

Florentine students create a serios game to learn Latin, starring Beato Angelico

On Monday, May 25 at 9:30 a.m., at the Museum of San Marco in Florence, Ars et Anima, an innovative serious game (a digital game designed specifically for educational, informative and didactic purposes) conceived and developed by the students of the ...
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In Palazzo Strozzi's Project Space, the solo exhibition of Jean-Marie Appriou

The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence is inaugurating CANTO INFINITO, a solo exhibition by Jean-Marie Appriou set up in the Project Spaceof Palazzo Strozzi. Curated by Arturo Galansino and open to the public from May 22 to August 23, 2026, the e...
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A private individual wins La Tebaide for 360,000 euros: sold at auction by Pandolfini

After more than half a century of absence from the market, The Thebaid attributed to Fra Angelico is back in the news, once again gaining attention on the market. The painting, which disappeared from circulation since the 1970s but was always conside...
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Florence defends historic center: Tar confirms limits on short-term rentals

This city is not a hotel, one might say, and as of a few hours ago it has had a ruling that puts it in black and white. In Florence, Mayor Sara Funaro spoke of a "historic day," rebuked by Forza Italia, which spoke of "foolish jubilation," but yester...
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Mark Rothko in Florence, the space of color and spirit. What the exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi looks like

"Oh no, I've got the wrong exhibition!": let us be allowed a joking incipit before delving into the rooms of the Mark Rothko exhibition currently underway in Florence. The joke, admittedly a bit exaggerated, springs from the feeling one gets from cas...
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Presented the new visual identity of GAMB - Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze and Musei del Bargello

The new visual identity of GAMB - Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze e Musei del Bargello, the new autonomous museum institute that brings together, in addition to the Galleria dell'Accademia and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Orsanmichele, Casa M...
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Uffizi, acquitted activists who attached flood images to glass of Botticelli's Venus

The case against three Ultima Generazione activists who, on Feb. 13, 2024, had entered the Uffizi and attached images of theCampi Bisenzio flooding that had occurred the previous fall to the protective glass of Botticelli's Venus, using scotch tape, ...
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The Thebaid attributed to Fra Angelico found after 50 years: will go to auction in Florence

A work that disappeared from circulation for more than half a century, but was never forgotten by art history, suddenly returns to the center of international attention. In fact, the Thebaid attributed to Beato Angelico (Fra' Giovanni da Fiesole, bor...
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