Eight years after having been discovered and verified as pertaining to a young Michelangelo, a wooden crucifix, post restoration, is now on show at the Bargello Museum in Florence. The piece is on show in the Cappella del Podestà, Bargello Museum, Florence. Bargello Museum ticket booking Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers [...]
Florence, Accademia Gallery exhibition 2012
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Arte torna arte’ Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence 8th May – 4th November 2012 The title of this exhibition is a tricky one to translate … ‘Art becomes/returns to/back to art’ but the concept is pretty much that of a cycle, a common root system, a constant flux of creation across all parts of a culture. This [...]
Florence, Boxing Day (December 26th) special openings
December 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some extra special openings in Florence on the 26th of December 2011; the 26th is a Monday and ordinarily the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery (home to David) would be closed. Not so this year, although they will be closing an hour or so earlier. Uffizi booking Accademia and David booking Recommend on Facebook [...]
Rome exhibition, Da Vinci and Michelangelo
November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
‘Leonardo e Michelangelo. Capolavori della grafica e studi romani’ Rome, Capitoline Museum, 27th October 2011 – 12th February 2012 This exhibition previewed in Florence earlier this year – blog post, La scuola del mondo – and now comes to Rome with more drawings (66 of them) that aim ‘to provide a detailed comparison between two [...]
Florence, Ferragosto 2011, Uffizi and Accademia open
August 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Florence, 15th August 2011 Both the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia are ordinarily closed on Mondays but we have today been informed that both venues will be open on Monday the 15th of August 2011, the day of the national Ferragosto holiday. The hours are as follows: Galleria della Accademia – 08.15 – 13.50 Uffizi [...]
Florence exhibition, Michelangelo and Da Vinci
April 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
‘La scuola del mondo’: disegni di Leonardo e Michelangelo a confronto Casa Buonarotti, Florence, 20th April – 1st August 2011 This ‘School of the world’ exhibition aims to compare and contrast works by Da Vinci and Michelangelo. The pieces on show are all designs, sketches, briefs … the free-drawn inspirations of great works and projects, [...]
Milan – the next Michelangelo exhibition
March 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
‘L’ultimo Michelangelo. Disegni e rime attorno alla Pietà Rondanini.’ Milan, Castello Sforzesco (Museo d’Arte Antica) 24th March – 19th June 2011, closed Mondays As the ‘ultimo’ of the exhibiton title makes plain, this exhibition focuses on Michelangelo’s last years, with designs and writings (the ‘rime’ of the title meaning rhyme, poetry) from the last ten [...]
Michelangelo’s David, Florence – an expert warns he is at risk
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It comes to us all, old age. Dave’s got dodgy ankles, apparently, and ‘underground architect’ Fernando De Simone claims that planned construction work may see Michelangelo’s masterpiece crumble and collapse. David’s ankles have micro-fissures in the marble and it is the construction of a new high speed rail link (and a tunnel at a distance [...]
Milan, Michelangelo exhibition – ‘Michelangelo, architect’
February 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Michelangelo Architetto nei disegni della Casa Buonarroti Milan, Castello Sforzesco (Sale Viscontee) 11th February – 8th May 2011, closed Mondays Michelangelo the architect as seen in the designs from the Casa Buonarotti. A collection of more than 50 designs, divided into themes (religious buildings, civil engineering, fortification) highlighting Michelangelo’s skill and enlightenment in architecture. The [...]
Florence, Academy Gallery, Bartolini exhibition
December 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia, ‘Lorenzo Bartolini, Scultore del Bello Naturale’ 31st May to 6th November 2011 – now extended until January 8th 2012. Lorenzo Bartolini (1777 – 1850) was born near Prato in Tuscany and was a neoclassicist sculptor – the title of this exhibition casts his works as pieces capturing ‘natural beauty’. The exhibition, the [...]
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