For centuries, it provided rest and refreshment to pilgrims heading to Rome, safeguarded the resources needed to care for them, and underwent transformations that reflect the economic and religious history of Tuscany. Now, in Altopascio…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Five hundred Florence Mannerism Pontormo Quirinal Stables Rome Tuscany
To his contemporaries, the frescoes that Pontormo painted in Florence on the walls of the choir of San Lorenzo must have seemed an extreme, laborious expression of defiance— that “negative Sistine Chapel,” as Luciano Berti had…
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For Sonia Pallai, director of the WE Montecatini Tourism Foundation, the future of tourism in Montecatini Terme depends on the city’s ability to move beyond nostalgia for its glorious spa heritage and build a new identity, without…
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There is no trace of the composed reassurance found in much Renaissance art in the gaunt face of the Penitent Mary Magdalene that once stoodin the hermitage of Santa Maria Maddalena in Cascio, in Garfagnana. In this glazed terracotta…
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Works and artists Ancient art Caravaggesque Lucca Six hundred Tuscany
In the center of Lucca and many other cities in Tuscany, as summer gives way to fall and the days begin to cool and the sun sets early, a scent rises from the small braziers placed at street intersections—a scent that everyone by now…
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Works and artists Ancient art Florence Four hundred Masaccio Pisa Renaissance Tuscany
Archival research, when conducted with expertise and diligence, always yields positive results: this is evident from the research that Giuseppe Petralia conducted in various archives on topics related to the medieval history of Tuscany and…
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To understand just how much a painting can change after restoration, one need only look atthe *Annunciation* by Neri di Bicci (Florence, 1418/1420–1492) in the Church of Sant’Agata in Florence. Beneath a thick layer of grime…
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Exhibition reviews Magic realism Modern Art Tuscany Twentieth Century
These are silences that permeate the Maremma countryside, the result of a mind that viewed those fields, those pine trees, those rivulets, and those marshes as one might view a gold ground, a painting by Piero della Francesca, or a…
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