In the last three years or so small posters featuring famous figures and artworks wearing diving masks are likely to be found hanging on the walls in the streets and alleys of the city of Florence. They send a clear message: art knows how to swim (“L’arte sa nuotare” in read more
Son of a French writer, Clet began his artistic career as a painter and sculptor, after earning his degree at the School of Fine Arts in Rennes. In 1990, he moved to Rome, where he worked as a restorer. Clet arrived in Florence in 2005. There, he opened a paint read more
The first anonymous street artist we want to present you is known with the name of the project he has been developing throughout the streets of Florence: Exit/Enter. He has an academic background, based on art and drawing. His background, together with his passion for night walks around the city, read more
The pedestrian tunnel which passes under the railroad tracks and leads to the Le Cure neighborhood has become a hotspot for developing street art in Florence. The walkway is a spider web of eight galleries, with all walls and ceilings covered with constantly changing vivid murals by diverse artists, particularly read more
Florence is the birthplace of Renaissance art, or as people put it the Cradle of the Renaissance (“la culla de Rinascimento”, in Italian). The city is like an open-air museum, rich in history and art. Yet, lately a special form of art has been flourishing in the capital city of read more
What does St. Anne have to do with Florence? Most don’t know that St. Anne is the second saint of Florence, after St. John, and is celebrated on July 26, the day the city was liberated from the domination of the Duke of Athens Gualtieri of Brienne in 1343, thanks read more
The city of Florence satisfies many curiosities, but it also holds many mysteries that we have not been able to unravel yet. The Basilica of San Lorenzo is a church that was very dear to the ‘de Medici family, so dear that they chose it as burial place. Inside the read more
« Nor ample less nor larger they appear’d Than, in Saint John’s fair dome of me beloved, Those framed to hold the pure baptismal streams» (Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Inferno XIX) Florence is appreciated and studied all around the world: its monuments, its art and beauty that lie under every read more