Tuscany - Finestre sull'Arte

Florence, at the Horne Museum the Siviero Cross restored and reassembled after 100 years

A splendid recovered work was unveiled yesterday at the Horne Museum in Florence: it is the Siviero Cross, a panel painting by the Bolognese Lippo di Dalmasio degli Scannabecchi (Bologna, c. 1355 - 1410) named after Rodolfo Siviero (Guardistallo, 191...
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Searching for truth among the stones and paintings of the convent of San Francesco in Fiesole

Albert Camus had found at the age of twenty-four a fragment of his truth among the cells of the convent of San Francesco in Fiesole. He had climbed up here, on the hill overlooking Florence, in September 1937, and spent a morning among the Franciscan...
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Montepulciano celebrates the figure of Etruscan lucumon Porsenna. And his Head is back on display after 500 years

From July 10, 2025, to Jan. 6, 2026, the Crociani Civic Art Gallery Museum in Montepulciano will host the exhibition Porsenna between History and Legend, dedicated to the figure of the Etruscan lucumone, celebrated in historical sources, reinterprete...
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Inaugurated the gardens of Villa La Magia in Quarrata, after a restoration involving the entire complex

After a 22-month restoration involving the UNESCO World Heritage monumental complex in all its parts, the gardens of the Villa Medicea La Magia in Quarrata were inaugurated in the presence of the Mayor of Quarrata Gabriele Romiti, the President of th...
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Siena Cathedral opens to exclusive dawn visits with claviger

There is a moment, every day, when Siena Cathedral opens its eyes to the world, when light filters through the spires and caresses the polychrome marble of its facade: it is dawn, and it is at that suspended hour, when the city still sleeps and the n...
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From May 31 to June 22, 2025, the Municipality of Fiesole, with the collaboration of the Bueno Cultural Association, the Primo Conti Foundation, ElicitArte, and the contribution of Propilei Srl, presents the exhibition Evelina Bueno Hay in the Basola...
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A new museum will rise in Pisa: work begins on the Museum of Antiquities in Piazza dei Miracoli

Pisa looks to the future with a major cultural project in the heart of its historical heritage. In the Piazza dei Miracoli, one of the world's best-known UNESCO sites, work has officially begun on the creation of the Museum of Antiquities, a new muse...
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Pitti Palace joins the Association of European Royal Residences

Palazzo Pitti, a Florentine palace part of the Uffizi Galleries museum complex, officially joins theAssociation of European Royal Residences (ARRE). Submitted just a few weeks ago, the application was immediately accepted. The Association of European...
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