by Penny | 7 Feb, 2013 | Fresco painting, News, Painting, Renaissance Art, Sculpture
Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain – and to judge from this...
by Penny | 22 Nov, 2012 | News, Painting, Religious History, Renaissance Art, Sculpture, WW2
St George and Portofino – what is the connection? Most of us know the legendary story that St George killed “a hideous fire breathing old dragon” and recognise him as the Patron Saint of England – but most of my friends and visitors are...
by Penny | 7 Oct, 2012 | Fresco painting, News, Renaissance Art, Sculpture
Michelangelo’s Hidden drawings in the Medici Chapel These drawings are not generally found in Michelangelo text books – but they are found on the walls of a room under The New Sacristy (Sagrestia Nuova) of the San Lorenzo Basilica in Florence (aka the...
by Penny | 4 Oct, 2012 | Architecture, Exhibitions, Italian language, Modern Art, News, Sculpture, Social History, Women artists
4.10.12 Last night at the British Institute Library in Florence we were treated to another great talk by Canadian Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi DR James Bradbourne. In his position of joint Curator of the latest exhibition at the Strozzi Palace...
by Penny | 28 Sep, 2012 | Religious History, Renaissance Art, Sculpture
The grisly death of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca and his sons Count Ugolino della Gherardesca is remembered in history largely thanks to Dante Aligheri , who featured him as someone he met in the Inferno of his famous Divine Comedy ,...
by Penny | 27 Sep, 2012 | Exhibitions, Modern Art, News, Sculpture, Social History
27.9.12 Thirties Art, Bronze and well lit sculpture I have been to two excellent exhibitions in two countries this week – using totally different materials and – within the Bronze Exhibition – crossing vast periods in time (14c BCE to the...
