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TUSCANY & CONTEMPORARY ART
Posted by Violetta Buti in 2010 Summer Events in Florence, Contemporary sculptors, EXHIBITS IN ITALY on 28/07/2010
Etruscan land in Italy
- Tuscany Countryside
Tuscany attracts people from around the world not only for its superb ancient art and special atmosphere: CONTEMPORARY ART has become part of a true Italian experience that every visitor to this area should experience. Around Volterra are contemporary art installations that make the experience of driving up to Volterra one not to be missed. Spectacular views and nature will surprise you at every curve of this winding road – the old Etruscan road still connecting Volterra with Fiesole (near Florence). The Etruscans lived in this area from the 8th century B.C. when the Romans had not founded Florence yet. They were contemporaries of the Greeks and possessed an elevated cultural level. In Volterra you can visit the Etruscan museum and, as you walk around the town, see an Etruscan gate dating back to the 2nd century B.C. Internationally known artist Mauro Staccioli was borne in this city. His works blend perfectly with the Tuscany countryside. The exhibit will be visible until September 2010.
BANKING & ART IN FLORENCE, ITALY, IN THE 3rd MILLENNIUM
Posted by Violetta Buti in CITY TOURS OF FLORENCE, Contemporary architecture, Contemporary sculptors, EXHIBITS IN ITALY on 10/11/2009
Contemporary Artists activ in Italy
- Impruneta terracotta vases
On the last 3rd of October of 2009 the Florentines were offered a free guided tour of the new Italian Bank “Cassa di Risparmio” situated in an area of Florence called “Novoli” where many new buildings such as the new Court and University of Florence are being build.
As always with the Italians art and design are an important mark of this new building. At the back
- Italian Garden in Tuscany
we find a formal garden created with the typical mediterranean flora that one can usually find along the coast of Italy. As an additional Tuscan touch we can admire ligned up terracotta vases with lemon trees that cannot be missed in the usual Toscana garden or park.
IGOR MITORAJ is a living contemporary Polnish artist whose works can be seen inside the Boboli Gardens behind the Pitti Palace in Florence, in Greve in Chianti, in Pietrasanta near the Tuscan coast where he opened his atelier years ago and now in the garden and inside the building of the new “Cassa di Risparmio” in Florence.
BAROCCI, ITALIAN PAINTER – EXHIBIT IN SIENA, ITALY
Posted by Violetta Buti in CULTURAL EVENTS IN FLORENCE, EXHIBITS IN ITALY, Italian painters on 17/10/2009
- PERUGIA AND IT’S CATHEDRAL HOUSE THE MASTERPIECE BY BAROCCI
Last 9th of October I attended the press conference for the opening of the exhibit dedicated to a great yet little known painter: Federico Barocci (1528-1612). Born in Urbino (Duchy of Urbino in the past) he worked both in Urbino and Rome. A great work of his (“la Madonna del Popolo”)can be seen in the Uffizi museum in the city of Florence; among the many things, this city is famous in the word for a period that was defined as Renaissance.
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