Tuscany - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Sandro Botticelli's Primavera, the very image of the beautiful season

When one thinks of a work of art that succeeds in embodying the essence of spring, probably the image that will most easily come to mind will be that of Botticelli's Primavera , at the risk of being a bit trite. Few paintings, however, have reached t...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti's Birthplace in Caprese: a journey through sculpture

"Michelangelo [...] from his modest castle where that great man was born, my thoughts turn to Vespignano, to Vinci, to Certaldo where Giotto, Leonardo, Boccaccio were born, and to so many other Italian lands from whence other supreme men came forth t...
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What to see in Sansepolcro: a historical-artistic itinerary through the streets of the center

Writing about that splendid strip of land between the banks of the Upper Tiber, known as the Valtiberina, Antonio Paolucci argued, "In this part of Italy, Beauty is ubiquitous and pervasive. Ubiquitous because you encounter it everywhere, pervasive b...
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The Portrait of a Lady in Red: at the origins of Bronzino's portraiture

For a long time the scientific community has been wondering about the identity of the lady depicted in the Portrait of a Lady in Red, one of the masterpieces of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. But it has also long wondered about the identity of ...
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Andrea del Sarto's forgotten pupil. What the exhibition on Pier Francesco Foschi looks like in Florence

An artist who looked to tradition, always true to himself, the author of devout, compassed and measured paintings while painting exploded around him. For these reasons, as well as for the fact that he was neglected, perhaps deliberately, by Giorgio V...
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Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, one of the most beautiful images of motherhood

An intense and profound scene from Valerio Zurlini's 1972 film La prima notte di quiete stars Alain Delon, who plays the role of Professor Daniele Domenici, and Sonia Petrova, who plays his student Vanina Abati in the film: the two young people find ...
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Patronage in 15th century Florence: palaces, chapels, works

In 1472, there were more woodcarvers than butchers in Florence . We know this from the Chronicle of Benedetto Dei, in which 84 stores of "woodcarvers of tarsias and 'ntagliatori" are listed for that year, compared to 70 beccai (the butchers, precise...
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