Category: Florence
Florence: the Giotto from San Giorgio alla Costa
Florence: San Lorenzo
Florence: Santo Spirito
Florence: Cenacolo di Santo Spirito

The old refectory (cenacolo) of the Santo Spirito complex houses a very special museum, administered by the Fondazione Salvatore Romano. In the museum we can see the personal collection of the art dealer and collector of ancient art Salvatore Romano (1875-1955). Romano was originally from the town of Meta on…
Florence: Cenacolo di Sant’Apollonia
Florence: San Remigio
Florence: Sant’Ambrogio
Florence: Santa Maria Maggiore
Florence: Santa Maria a Ricorboli
Florence: Santa Felicita
Florence: San Felice in Piazza
Gentile da Fabriano at the Uffizi
Florence: Titian at the Uffizi
Florence: Michelangelo at the Uffizi

Although he considered himself first and foremost a sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was also an accomplished painter. Pope Julius II (1503-1513) commissioned him to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, a project Michelangelo worked on between 1508 and 1512. The great artist later returned to this chapel…
Florence: Cross no. 432 at the Uffizi
Florence: Botticelli at the Uffizi
Florence: Giotto at the Uffizi

I will not hide the fact that I consider Giotto di Bondone (ca. 1266-1337) one of the greatest painters of all time. Giotto broke with Byzantine formalism and rigidness and started painting people as people again, with natural forms, intricate details and brilliant colours. His year of birth is uncertain,…
Florence: Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

The Opera del Duomo was the institution that was founded by the Florentine government in 1296 to oversee the construction of the new cathedral, the Santa Maria del Fiore or Duomo. It was the organisation in which architects, artists and workers collaborated. The Opera has been at its present location…