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#goldenmonday II - Why does a round painting have a square frame?

Pitti Palace

#goldenmonday II - Why does a round painting have a square frame?

The role of frames in setting up a Baroque picture gallery

#goldenmonday III - What are subject frames?

Pitti Palace

#goldenmonday III - What are subject frames?

What do certain strange shapes carved into the frames represent? Deformed faces, monstrous figures, flowers, claws, scales, eagle wings; sometimes ...

Women of Ancient Rome

The Uffizi

Women of Ancient Rome

Video in Latin | Novella Lapini and Alessandro Muscillo tell us about some sculptures of Roman women in Latin

#goldenmonday IV - Bilication

Pitti Palace

#goldenmonday IV - Bilication

Why is Raphael's "La Velata" hung in such a strange way? When there was no artificial light, the workers had the right to move the paintings, makin...

Luis de Morales en los Uffizi

The Uffizi

Luis de Morales en los Uffizi

Alejandra Micheli nos abre otra vez las puertas de los depósitos, para visitar una obra del pintor ya en su época apodado por sus contemporáneos "E...

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The sleeping Ariadne told in Latin

The Uffizi

The sleeping Ariadne told in Latin

Video in Latin | Alessandro Muscillo illustrates is latin the myth of the Cretan princess, abandoned by a mortal and then married to a god

Adoration of the Magi by Filippino Lippi

The Uffizi

Adoration of the Magi by Filippino Lippi

The New York art historian Jonathan Nelson shows us an extraordinary work, in which appears a moor who had intrigued Giorgio Vasari himself

The Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano

The Uffizi

The Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano

Carl Brandon Strehlke, American-born medieval art historian, shows us "the blue of gold" in the early fifteenth-century masterpiece

Giotto's Majesty

The Uffizi

Giotto's Majesty

Carl Brandon Strehlke, refined art historian, tells us about the fourteenth-century masterpiece, with the first spatial and perspective intuitions ...

The epigraph with Avilius Teres's palmarès

The Uffizi

The epigraph with Avilius Teres's palmarès

Video in Latin | A real recordman of chariot racing from Hadrian's and Antoninus Pius's ages

Citri et Aurea - Workshop

Boboli Gardens

Citri et Aurea - Workshop

Video in english | Workshop about Historical Gardens - 9th September 2020 (streaming)

The Boboli Gardens' Aquarium

Boboli Gardens

The Boboli Gardens' Aquarium

Video in Italian | The large basin with around 50 species of water plants

Masaccio and Masolino: St. Anne Metterza

The Uffizi

Masaccio and Masolino: St. Anne Metterza

A masterpiece presented by the Director of the Opera Duomo Museum, Mons. Timothy Verdon

The Musician Angel by Rosso Fiorentino

The Uffizi

The Musician Angel by Rosso Fiorentino

Video in Italian | A piece of an original altarpiece gone lost

The stories of St. Nicholas by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

The Uffizi

The stories of St. Nicholas by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Video in Italian | Protector of kids, known in the Nordic countries as Santa Claus or Father Christmas

The disliked painting by Rosso Fiorentino

The Uffizi

The disliked painting by Rosso Fiorentino

Video in Italian | The patron who commissioned the work felt as if the painter had been willing to laugh at him

The Holy Family by Luca Signorelli

The Uffizi

The Holy Family by Luca Signorelli

Video in Italian | Inside a perfect circle: the model for a whole generation of painters from Michelangelo to Andrea del Sarto and Raphael

The water lily

Boboli Gardens

The water lily

Video in Italian | A wonderful flowering of water lilies in the Boboli Garden's Aquarium

New Generation Festival - The Three Divas (Jazz session)

Boboli Gardens

New Generation Festival - The Three Divas (Jazz session)

Concert in the Boboli Gardens - 28 August 2020

New Generation Festival - La Cenerentola (Rossini)

Boboli Gardens

New Generation Festival - La Cenerentola (Rossini)

Boboli Gardens - 26 August 2020 | The opening night for Rossini’s jubilant adaptation of Charles Perrault’s Cinderella fairy tale, indisputably one...

The Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo by Bronzino

The Uffizi

The Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo by Bronzino

Video in Italian | Talking about a masterpiece of the 16th century

The Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo

The Uffizi

The Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo

Video in Italian | Talking about the unfinished painting by the genius

The pottery of the Contini Bonacossi Collection

The Uffizi

The pottery of the Contini Bonacossi Collection

Video in Italian | Discovering some lesser-known yet gorgeous pieces of art