by Penny | 3 May, 2017 | Books, Garden tours, News, Social History, The Art of Writing, Tours, Tuscan gardens, WW2
A day trip to La Foce & DopoLavoro La Foceand Montepuliciano. DopoLavoro La Foce is a restaurant, lodged in a building that formed part of the grounds of Anthony and Iris Origo’s estate in Val D’Orcia. It was originally the place where their farm...
by Penny | 9 Apr, 2017 | Florentine History, Florentine money, Garden tours, Italy and the American Imagination, Michelangelo, News, poets and poetry, Renaissance Art, Sculpture, Social History, Tuscan gardens, WW1
Emilio Santarelli,(1801–1886) was the Florentine artist who sculpted the vigorous and sympathetic sculpture of Michelangelo Buonarotti for one of the most prominent niches in the Uffizi. He was an important Florentine artist,...
by Penny | 20 Mar, 2017 | Advancing Women Artists AWA, Exhibitions, Florentine History, Medieval History, News, Painting, Religious History, Renaissance Art, Restoration, Social History, The Last Supper, Women artists
Suor Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) is the first-known female Renaissance painter of Florence, Italy. It is not possible to confirm that the portrait, shown below, is the painter who chose to become a Nun and entered the Convent of St. Catherine of Siena in Florence,...
by Penny | 3 Feb, 2017 | News
Cinque Terre Tours with Sue Jane I have been friends with local resident Sue Jane since she came on the Art of Writing writers retreat in 2012 and envy her beach apartment in the beautiful Cinque Terre. Sue has been taking groups, large and small. around Cinque Terre...
by Penny | 29 Jan, 2017 | News
The debate over this painting by Jan Van Eyck, bought in 1842 by the National Gallery in London, has been lively almost from the get-go and it is still one of the most visited pictures in the gallery. School-children guffaw at the man in the huge hat and his funny...
