Events in Florence

Every last Sunday of May Scarperia dresses with flowers.
The main roads and squares are "painted" with petals of flowers, representing every year a different theme.
All the inhabitants participate to this event, from the previous[...]

The Springtime of the Renaissance. Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400-60.

The exhibition proposes to illustrate, in theme-based sections, the origin of what is still known today as the "miracle" of the Renaissance in[...]

An Idea of Beauty, on view at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS) at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, sets out to explore the work of eight contemporary international artists – Vanessa Beecroft, Chiara Camoni, Andreas Gefeller,[...]

Adopting a totally new approach to a fascinating topic, Civic Art in Florence from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance focuses on works of art originally commissioned to decorate the public buildings of Florence which housed the magistracies tasked[...]

Amid Medici Splendour
Pope Leo X and Florence

The Museo delle Cappelle Medicee is planning to celebrate the figure of Pope Leo X, the first Medici pope, five hundred years after his election to the Holy See.
Taking a[...]

Paths of wonder
Restorations at the Bargello

For the year 2013 the Bargello National Museum has organised a show focusing on some of the most important recently-completed restorations of works from the collections, made possible by the[...]

Luxury and Elegance
French porcelain at court and the Ginori manufactory (1800-1830)

To mark the 40th anniversary of the inauguration of the Museo delle Porcellane in Palazzo Pitti, the Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico,[...]