Tuscany - Finestre sull'Arte

The She-wolf of Siena: the tale of the fair that became a symbol of the city

The figure of the She-wolf with twins occupies a foundational role in Siena's imagery because it recalls the city's legendary origins and embodies its deepest identity value. The animal's watchful posture, combined with the vitality of the two infant...
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Dragons in Tuscany: from mythology to the works of the great masters

The dragon, a mythical figure that has always populated the human imagination, has gone through centuries of iconographic transformations until it became the fire-breathing winged monster we know today. Its presence in the figurative arts recounts a ...
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"The ancients always copy us". The Etruscans in contemporary art

When, in the eighteenth century, Johann Joachim Winckelmann tries to give a comprehensive shape to the history of ancient art, his gaze constructs a map in which Greece occupies the incandescent center. In the pages of Geschichte der Kunst des Altert...
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Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies: symbols and theology behind the monsters

We owe to Giorgio Vasari the title by which one of Andrea del Sarto 's (Andrea d'Agnolo; Florence, 1486 - 1530) greatest masterpieces is known, the Madonna of the Harpies, a panel more than two meters high that is kept in the Uffizi and is placed at ...
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The "Castle of Sandokan," starring on Rai Uno, is located in Tuscany and is the Castle of Sammezzano

The Castle of Sammezzano, a famous example of Orientalist architecture located in the hamlet of Leccio, in the municipality of Reggello (Florence), is coming back to life on the small screen with the remake of the series Sandokan, airing on Rai Uno f...
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The Etruscans in comics: a journey into reinterpretations of an enigmatic civilization

When in 1985 the Region of Tuscany dedicated an entire year to the promotion of Etruscan civilization, the project that developed took on a pioneering role in defining new ways of disseminating historical and archaeological heritage. TheYear of the E...
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The Serpent Regulus, the little king crawling in Tuscany between folklore and art

Among the legends of Tuscany, a special place belongs to that of the Serpente Regolo, a fantastic creature that occupies a prominent place in folk traditions stretching from Tuscany to Umbria, Abruzzo, Lazio, and Marche. This mythological entity is g...
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Boldini's Haystack joins the collections of the Museum of the Ancient Palace of the Bishops of Pistoia

The Museum of the Ancient Palace of Bishops in Pistoia, managed by the Pistoia Musei Foundation, expands its collections with the acquisition of The Haystack by Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, 1842 - Paris, 1931), a small oil on panel painting depicting a...
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