From 1st July to 30th September 2008 the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery in Florence will extend the current opening hours up to 22.00 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.more...

The world's first photography exhibition for the blind and the partially sighted people.more...

A major event celebrating the art of the blacksmith is held every other year in Stia, during which there is the individual and team world forging championship.more...

Lights on Chinart Generation - Transition from past to future. A selection of works between twelve Chinese artists of the contemporary art will be held in Palazzo Capponi all'Annunziata in Florence.more...

From the Decline of the Medici to the Empire - the approximately 180 works of art selected for the exhibition embracing painting, sculpture, the goldsmith’s craft, jewellery, porcelain...more...

The first exhibition dedicated to Lorenzo Monaco, leading protagonist of late gothic painting in Italy, one well known and respected by specialists, but still awaiting proper consecration among the vast public of today.more...

Open from March 1, 2006 until June 15, 2006, Bargello National Museum, Florence. This is the first exhibition that Italy dedicates to Giambologna, important artist, the most celebrated of the sculptors who lived in Italy after Michelangelo and ...more...

Free guided visit of the Medici Chapels and other museums of the city, Florence, Tuscany. Opening date 18-02-2006. Historical parade of the Florentine Republic to commemorate Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici's donation of the family heritage to the city.more...

Santo Stefano Cathedral piazza del Duomo, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. It is the last year opportunity to visit the restoration worksite for Filippo Lippi's frescoes. Closing date 31-12-2006.more...

The cultural Association of Continuous Art of Saint Gimignano organizes over the last ten years Art to the Art. An international symposium of contemporary art that recalls a group of Tuscan artists of great reputation.more...

Experts think Leonardo da Vinci was probably planning a picture of an adoration of the Christ child, but abandoned the idea before drawing Jesus as a baby, our correspondent says.more...

Researchers now believe these cryptic words could be a clue to the location of a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting and are pressing local authorities to allow them to seek the masterpiece of Renaissance art.more...