Works and artists Ancient art Cimabue Duccio di Buoninsegna Giotto Medieval art MuDEV Three hundred Two hundred
It is truly impressive to scroll through the bibliography on the extraordinary late 13th-century Madonna and Child preserved at the Museum of Santa Verdiana in Castelfiorentino, in the hills of Valdelsa. Many of the greatest art historians…
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Works and artists January 27 Memorial Day MuDEV Tuscany
It was six o'clock in the morning. The area of the Padule di Fucecchio, the vast marshland that occupies the heart of Tuscany between Empoli and Pontedera and laps the town of Fucecchio, was slowly waking up. Its inhabitants were beginning…
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Works and artists Ancient art Contemporary art Empoli Florence Four hundred Masaccio Masolino MuDEV Tuscany
"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…
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Works and artists MuDEV Tuscany
The story of one of the best-known and most photographed works of contemporary art in all of Tuscany, namely The Man of Vinci by Mario Ceroli (Castel Frentano, 1938), the monumental wooden sculpture that pays homage to Leonardo da…
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Works and artists Ancient art Ceramics Montelupo Fiorentino MuDEV Tuscany
When art is linked to its territory, it creates a series of connections that range from culture toeconomics, from history to the everyday life of an entire population; it becomes itself a testimony to a past that must be studied and…
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Works and artists MuDEV Nineteenth century Tuscany
In 1874, when the great Macchiaioli artist Telemaco Signorini (Florence, 1835 - 1901) exhibited his towpath, one of the most celebrated products of his brush, for the third time exactly ten years after its creation, the reception it…
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Works and artists Ancient art MuDEV Six hundred Tuscany
The history of art is filled with extraordinary events, some of which are known to most, while others are less well known but no less fascinating and worthy of being told. These are vicissitudes involving artists who are considered minor…
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Works and artists Ancient art Florence Four hundred MuDEV Renaissance
If there were to be a ranking of the Italian works of art that have most traveled the world to be displayed in international exhibitions, then probably the Madonna and Child by Filippo Lippi (Florence, 1406 - Spoleto, 1469) preserved at…
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