In Il Bandino, an ancient hamlet now absorbed by Florence’s suburbs, an eighteenth-century plaque can still be seen on an old house; its inscription reads "Per Greve in Chianti" (To Greve in Chianti). At one time, the Via Chiantigiana, the main access road through Tuscany’s...
The Deposition (or Lamentation over the Dead Christ) of Sansepolcro is an oil painting on canvas (270 × 201 cm) by Rosso Fiorentino. It dates back to 1528 and is housed in Sansepolcro’s Church of San Lorenzo. The work was inspired above all by Volterra’s Deposition...
Since the early 17th century, the art of scagliola had flourished in various Italian regions, making it possible to imitate costly tarsia in semi-precious stone through the use of modest materials. This technique reached its zenith through the work of a Vallombrosan monk of...
Administratively divided between the provinces of Florence and Siena, Valdelsa is a borderland. The town of Certaldo is set at the end of the Florentine Valdelsa almost equidistant from the two cities, which are among the most culturally active in Tuscany, which have performed a...
The Parish Church of San Lazzaro a Lucardo was the mother church for the churches of Certaldo, the Church of Santi Tommaso e Prospero and the Church of Santi Jacopo e Filippo, at one time of Santi Michele e Jacopo. Set a little outside the...
In art history studies, often unknown artists are baptized using the name of a principal work, the so-called namepiece used in the Anglo-Saxon historiography, around which revolves the corpus of other works grouped on the basis of stylistic elements. In the last thirtyfive years, art...
Among the oldest works kept in the Museum is a small painting representing a Holy Deacon and a Saint, may be Saint Barbara, owned by the Florentine Galleries, which bought it in 1829. In storage with the label saying “Russian-Byzantine School”, it was first given...
Gaetano Maria Rosati, a leading figure of 19th century Fucecchio culture, stated in one of his essays: “The Fucecchio church boasts an uncommon celebrity among the famous churches of Tuscany and, if it does not rival with the main ones, perhaps it surpasses them for...
The picture gallery’s first hall, on the upper floor, has gathered interesting works from the Florentine workshops that were in great favor between the 14th and 15th centuries, with a display of works by masters of a certain importance: Agnolo Gaddi, Niccolò di Lorenzo, Mariotto...
