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Prato's Pecci Center unveils 2026 programming: here are the exhibitions

Passages: from hand to hand is the guiding theme of the 2026 programming of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, which presented this year's exhibitions today. After Building Community in 2025 and Tuscany at the Center in 2024, there...
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Prato, Apollonio di Giovanni's Trinity restored. Back to the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

After six months of restoration , the Trinity attributed to Apollonio di Giovanni, a significant testimony to Florentine painting of the mid-15th century, has returned to the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Prato . The work, a cusped panel with a gold ...
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Prato, St. Francis church restoration completed, reopening after seven years

The church of San Francesco in Prato, one of the first Franciscan churches in Italy, is once again opening its doors to all: in fact, the restoration that kept the building closed for seven years is over. The exceptionally complex and lengthy interve...
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Prato celebrates Loriano Bertini, entrepreneur and collector who made possible the creation of the Textile Museum

From July 3 to Sept. 21, 2025, the Prato Textile Museum will dedicate an exhibition to Loriano Bertini (Prato, 1930 - 2019), a central figure in the birth of the city's museum institution. The exhibition, titled I Am What I Donated. Loriano Bertini c...
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The Pecci Center of Prato presents the 2025 program: exhibitions and culture to build community

The cultural and artistic program for 2025 of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato was presented. Present at the press conference were President Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Prato Mayor Ilaria Bugetti, and General Director Stefano Collicelli ...
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Prato, the city acquires a 14th-century treasure: the triptych by the Master of Mezzana

Important return for the city of Prato: the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Saints Louis of Toulouse and Francis, a precious triptych by the Master of Mezzana, active in Prato between 1320 and 1340, finally returns to the Tuscan city after centu...
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At the Fabbricone in Prato a tribute to Walter Albini, genius of Italian prêt-à-porter

From Nov. 22 to Nov. 30, with a special preview on the 16th and 17th, Prato's Fabbricone, the historic home of Balli il Lanificio, opens its doors to the exhibition Omaggio a Walter Albini, a tribute to the great Italian fashion innovator Walter Albi...
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Art is wallpaper for the rich: Giulio Alvigini's provocation in Prato

From Sept. 20 to Nov. 22, 2024, BBS-pro in Prato presents L'arte è carta da par wallato per ricchi, an exhibition by artist Giulio Alvigini (Tortona, 1995), organized in collaboration with TerraMedia, curated by Davide Sarchioni. For Alvigini,...
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