The art of Montelupo’s master ceramists is the theme of the exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Ceramics and in Palazzo Podestarile. More than 120 works united by color, the result of constant chromatic research on the pigments which characterize the production of the so-called “Fabbrica di Firenze,” that is, works realized in […]

The stained glass window depicting Santo Stefano Protomartire (St. Stephen) was located on the back wall of the scarsella in the Church of Santo Stefano alle Corti, in the Municipality of Rignano sull’Arno. After the restoration it was installed in the Parish Church of San Leolino. The window with the image of the saint, within […]

Another edition of “Blogs & Crafts” is back, when 10 young artisans are chosen by a special jury for their skill at innovative expression through their Made in Italy crafts. Participation is free in the 25th edition of Artigianato e Palazzo from May 16 to 19, 2019, in an area dedicated to them in Florence’s […]

The exhibition, “Botticelli, Della Robbia, Cigoli”. Montevarchi, in a rediscovery of its artistic heritage, presents works commissioned for the city’s religious institutions between the end of the 15th and the 18th centuries. The more representative works include the “Coronation of the Virgin with Saints” by Botticelli, the “Nativity” by Santi di Tito and the “Miracle […]

In the past, perfume and its containers were reserved for a few privileged people who with these objects sought to show off their wealth and their love of the “marvelous.” Developed over time with meticulous and passionate research, the collection is very extensive, with more than 850 pieces ranging from balsamari of the first centuries […]

Mario Bellini, a major international figure in the world of architecture and design, is the focus of an important in-depth study by the Fondazione Musei Civici of Venice on the occasion of the September Venice Glass Week. This great retrospective is the first exhibition focusing on his research on glass and presenting nearly all his […]

After 18 years of closure, the Lake Como International Museum of Vintage Boats has recently reopened its doors to the public. The museum was originally founded in 1982 by GianAlberto Zanoletti, a great collector and enthusiast of boats and nautical memorabilia. In 1977 Zanoletti bought an old spinning mill and founded the Raccolta Barca Lariana […]

The exhibition Fashion in Florence. The birth of Italian style, curated by Erika Ghilardi of Archivio Foto Locchi and by Matteo Parigi Bini of Gruppo Editoriale, tells, through 25 precious shots of the Archivio Foto Locchi arranged in a non-chronological order, magic, beauty and contamination who invaded Florence in the early 50s and made it the […]

In Florence, in the Treasury of the Grand Dukes of Pitti Palace, precious porcelains produced by the manufactory in Doccia owned by Count Carlo Ginori and decorated by the Austrian painter Carlo Wendelin Anreiter de Ziernfeld, at the time the most highly esteemed artist in Europe, called to Florence in 1737. The refinement of the […]

The photographic exhibition traces the difficult years of the immediate post-war period up to the economic well-being of the early 1960s. Protagonist of the Italian scenario is the 1962 film Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life), directed by Dino Risi, which alludes to the overcoming of the past and the impetus towards a desired but indefinite […]

Chinese ceramics, for the most part monochrome, created over a period of five centuries, during the Song and the Yuan dynasties, and representing the highest degree of formal and technological refinement of Oriental ceramics, are currently being presented at the MAO in Turin. The extraordinary smelting process generates objects that have become icons of an […]

HOMI, the Lifestyle Trade Fair, set to take place from 25 to 28 January at Fiera Milano, is an occasion to discover the most interesting proposals from the lifestyle and personal accessory sectors. The HOMI exhibition dedicated to personal style will propose all the latest developments and trends and in the bijoux and fashion accessory […]

On 14 December 2018, the third biennial at Vicenza’s Museo del Gioiello jewelry museum was inaugurated with an entirely new selection. The third edition can be visited until the end of 2020: 310 unique and exclusive exhibits, 9 curators and 9 rooms, each of which presents a different meaning of jewelry, in a kaleidoscope of […]

On display, 24 ceramic works produced in Vietri sul Mare during the “German period” of the 1920s and 1930s by Gunther Stüdemann, Richard Dölker, Leo Anzengruber, Elsie Dölker and Guido Gambone. In the period between the two World Wars, many artists from northern Europe stopped in that town on the coast of the Campania region […]

The exhibition is dedicated to the historical Angeli art print shop, opened in Lucca in 1948, and which began its business with a lithographic press for printing labels. In the 1960s, it worked with artists using the technique of drawing on stone. Art became accessible to a wider but also more attentive and demanding public. […]

  In Turin, in the Sala Chiablese of the Musei Reali (Royal Museums), this exhibition brings together a selection of about 100 works including projects, posters, videos, paintings and photographs and design objects created by Armando Testa between 1940 and 1990. It is a structured program that follows the evolution of art and design in […]

Established in 1980, the exhibition has always strived to foster the revival of the art of the traditional ceramic nativity scene, and to contribute to developing contemporary forms and techniques. This year the theme is “Forme d’Amore (Forms of Love)” which, as stated by the Councilor for Culture Elisabetta Dubla, “offers a stimulus so that […]

Until January 7, 2019, submissions for the first “Albisola: ceramica nel verde” competition are open. The competition is open to both Italian and foreign ceramic artists, provided they are presented by an artisan workshop or ceramic industry, which will view the participant’s model of membership. Each competitor may present only one work, made up of […]

With a dozen sections, “Printing Revolution, 1450-1500” features the evolution of printing in Europe over fifty years, with the presence of millions of books, not only for the elite, but for “everyone”, and a vast number for schools. During the event there will be workshops for adults and children and a typographic press from the […]

The workshops of artisans and antique galleries, young people, families and children involved in visits and workshops of know-how and much more. From 1 to 24 December in via Maggio in Florence a new edition of Contemporaneamente is back, a project conceived and curated by the Via Maggio Association to rediscover the historic street of […]