Tuscany - Finestre sull'Arte

Grosseto and the Maremma, the strength of the land

In one of his 1948 articles, Carlo Cassola had compared Grosseto to Kansas City: or rather, the comparison was attributed to an American serviceman who had passed through the Tuscan town during the war and noted the similarities between the two citie...
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Florence, reopens Villa La Quiete garden, Medici masterpiece and treasure trove of 18th-century botany

For the first time in its history, the historic Garden of Villa La Quiete opens its doors to the public. A secret place, a precious 18th-century treasure chest hidden in the greenery of the Castello district in Florence, the garden represents one of ...
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Uffizi, restored Stanzino delle Matematiche: a treasure among science, art and history rediscovered

At the Uffizi finally reopens to the public the Stanzino delle Matematiche, a small room of very high symbolic and historical value, completely restored and returned to its original meaning. Located next to Buontalenti's famous Tribuna, this space ha...
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Livorno and the sea, a thousand-year history that begins with the Etruscans

If there is a place where the sea is not just a geographic boundary, but a soul that has shaped its history and brings it to life, that place is the province of Livorno. Here, the sea is not just an element of the landscape, but an essential componen...
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Eugenio Cecconi, painter of the Maremma, on display in Forte dei Marmi

One of the most important retrospectives dedicated to Eugenio Cecconi (Livorno, 1842 - Florence, 1903) a painter friend of the Macchiaioli and authentic witness of a Tuscany made up of countryside, hunting and everyday peasant life, comes to life in ...
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Because innovation is written in Pisa's DNA

There is a thread that runs through the centuries and binds Pisa and its entire territory to a key concept of modernity:innovation. This is no accident or recent phenomenon: Pisa has always been, since ancient times, a laboratory of ideas, experiment...
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Important purchase for Arezzo National Museum: masterpiece by Poppi arrives

An important piece of Tuscan Mannerist painting returns to the heart of its homeland. As of today, the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art in Arezzo can boast in its collections a valuable work by Francesco Morandini known as Poppi (Poppi, 154...
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From the Apuan Alps to the Apennines, between the mountains of Massa-Carrara and Lunigiana

"All you have to do is climb the mountains, in Apuania, and the landscape itself lends itself to being a setting for visions. That then already the marble is a swarm of marine life, carbonate sediments produced in what were once coral reefs. Those la...
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