The Museo Civico d’Arte Industriale e Galleria Davia Bargellini and the Museo di Palazzo Poggi in Bologna host the exhibition Truth and Illusion. Figures in Wax from the Eighteenth Century in Bologna presenting wax works from the eighteenth century, a century that rediscovers that art and the complex techniques of execution, already known in classical […]

The Pinacoteca Civica di Como dedicates the exhibition Universo Parisi. Ico and Luisa’s glass and ceramics to two artists who distinguished themselves in planning and design from the 1950s to the mid-1990s. Domenico (Ico), a pupil of Giuseppe Terragni in Palermo in the late 1930s, was able to combine his training as an architect with […]

THE POOL NYC presents “A Journey with LINO TAGLIAPIETRA,” the solo exhibition of Lino Tagliapietra, the world’s leading contemporary glass artist. The Milan-based gallery, which has been dealing with Venetian glass for many years, also wants to highlight Tagliapietra’s importance in the contemporary art scene. Glass is used by the artist in a totally innovative […]

The social communication campaign curated by Officine Millennial for the MAM-Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere project has kicked off. On the occasion of the titles awarded in this 2022, the team of Davide Burchiellaro, journalism and communication expert and CEO of the start-up Officine Millennial, made video reels interviewing some of the winning Maestros entered in […]

A free course to create the brand of Palazzo Litta: registration is open from Dec. 12, 2022 until Jan. 16, 2023 for the Workshop “Bauhaus Barocco,” designed for the MiC Regional Secretariat of Lombardy. The Workshop aims to study and research the iconic Milanese palace in order to arrive at the design of a graphic […]

The restoration (2021-2022) of the Madonna and Child with Adoring Angels, a marble sculpture attributed to Zanobi di Bartolo and Simone Talenti dated between 1359 and 1360, which stands on the Cornacchini door in the north side of Santa Maria del Fiore, revealed unexpected coloring. Under deposits of dirt of various kinds and textural decay, […]

The extensive collection of works of decorative art donated by French collector Louis Carrand (1827-1888) to the Bargello Museum in 1888 includes 140 delicate Limoges enamels: works of refined beauty and extreme fragility, so much so that they required constant monitoring by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. The three triptychs on copper were restored, studied […]

The Wolfsoniana in Genoa, an institution that is part of the Nervi Civic Museum Complex, in agreement with the Dady Orsi Association, an Artist of the Twentieth Century, presents a selection of paintings on glass made by (Edoardo) Orsi. An artist, Genoese by birth (1917-2003), Venetian by training and Milanese by adoption, who tried his […]

New graphics, also renewed in content, for the online version of “Mestieri d’Arte & Design. Crafts Culture,” Fondazione Cologni’s semi-annual magazine dedicated to the excellence of artistic crafts, high manufacturing and conscious and creative design. In celebration of the successful collaboration with Elle Decor Italia, which conveys the magazine to its 10,000,000 subscribers, the digital […]

In this lead-up to Christmas, the Homo Faber Guide edited by Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship devotes a special feature to flower designers and their creations for the holidays and seasons. The participating florists are: Gábor Nagy, Emily Avenson, Katya Hutter and sisters Laura and Teresa Cugusi, the duo from Puscina Flowers. Each will […]

Since the end of October, the second floor of the museum has been presenting never-before-seen objects, hitherto kept in the museum’s storerooms, that pay homage to the imaginative personality of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949). What emerges is a fascinating, eclectic, brilliant character capable of alternating, with extraordinary elasticity, the activity of artist with that […]

The Sala della Guardaroba, originally intended to store the movable property of the court, preserves 53 oil-painted panels by two monks, Egnazio Danti and Stefano Bonsignori, inserted in the doors of cupboards. The pictures depict the lands and seas known in the 16th century, during the time of Cosimo I dei Medici, first Duke and […]

The exhibition, set up in the premises of the Ernesto Ragionieri Library in Sesto Fiorentino by the Richard Ginori Archive Museum Foundation of the Doccia Factory, presents a selection of 45 works documenting the origins of the Ginori Factory. It is a preview of what will later be on view with the reopening of the […]

Now in its fourth edition is the MAM – Maestro d’Arte e Mestiere award, promoted by the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, in collaboration with ALMA, The International School of Italian Cuisine. Dedicated to Italian masters of art of excellence, under the aegis of important and significant institutional sponsorships including the Ministry of Culture, the […]

The new cycle of lessons of the Fondazione Cologni, offered free of charge to all 26 young talents selected for the project Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Paths of Excellence. Designed ad hoc, it includes 150 hours of targeted training, structured as follows: History of Applied Arts by Corsi Arte; Design and Personal branding by Politecnico […]

The Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza will organize the Forum della Bellezza on November 10, 2022, a day dedicated to all those virtuous projects that focus on the beauty of the territory, artistic and cultural treasures and exceptional places that our country has to offer. The event will be held in the historic setting of […]

Sixteen rare wax models have been donated by Marquis Lionardo Lorenzo Ginori to the Bargello Museum. After restoration, which has already begun on five specimens, the entire nucleus will be placed in a new room dedicated to Baroque sculpture and displayed in rotation. The waxes, which illustrate sacred and mythological subjects, are taken from forms […]

Palazzo Davanzati, a medieval tower house, was reopened to the public a few days ago, housing works and objects that testify to the customs of Florentine private life from the 14th to the end of the 16th century. The new display follows a chronological order to appreciate the furnishings of the state rooms and those […]

The 6th Notebook of the Documentation Center on Contemporary Architecture in Tuscany (Cedacot) has just been published, collecting the proceedings of the conference held in Florence at the Academy of Fine Arts and the former Manifattura Tabacchi on November 18 and 25, 2021. The volume collects papers by various scholars who have long been interested […]

It is entitled Primitivo, the winning work of the second edition of the award wanted by Starhotels, born from La Grande Bellezza, a project of contemporary patronage to which the prestigious Florentine hotel group gave life in collaboration with Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, Associazione OMA – Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte and Gruppo Editoriale. The […]