by Penny | 6 Jun, 2011 | Feature, Festival of San Giovanni, Painting, Photography
6th June 2011 – Luca Rafanelli Local artist Luca Rafenelli has always lived and worked in the region of Florence known as Oltrarno ( the other side of the Arno) and he has his workshop and bottega on Via di Serragli not far from where I live and where I took my...
by Penny | 5 Jun, 2011 | News, Photography
5th June 2011 After six weeks of glorious Tuscan sunshine it seems as if all Florence is weeping this afternoon – and not just una furtiva lacrima – we had thumping great hailstones!! ...
by Penny | 4 Jun, 2011 | Feature, Italian language, News, Photography, Renaissance Art, Tuscan gardens
3rd June 2011 As immortalised by Maggie Smith in Tea with Mussolini the jingoistic English chose to teach the Italians “a little basic English” in preference to the learning the language of their country of choice! Thankfully, these days I think everyone I...
by Penny | 28 May, 2011 | Feature, Photography
Saturday 28th May to Saturday 4th June – Galleria Pio Fedi, via de’Serragli 99, Firenze. This evening we went to a Private View of an exhibition of photos by Pier Paolo Quaglia – held to promote his new book . The Exhibition is held in old church...
