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ARTS GUIDE: EXHIBITS IN PISA and Florence

July 13, 2009 By: contributor Category: Uncategorized No Comments →

The following is a  guide to some of  Pisa and Florence art exhibitions:

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PISA - Palazzo Blu: Art and Science in Galileo’s Time; 140 works until July 19

FLORENCE - Medici Chapels: show on life and times of Ferdinand I de’ Medici, powerful third grand duke of Tuscany, (1549-1609), marking 400th anniversary of his death; until November 1.

- Bargello: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Living Marbles; until July 12.

- Palazzo Strozzi: Galileo show marking 400th anniversary of his first observations of the night sky; 250 exhibits including the middle finger from Galileo’s right hand; until August 30.

- Palazzo Pitti: Memories of Antiquity in 20th-Century Art; 130 paintings and sculptures from Etruscan, classical and Renaissance times and 20th-century works by Dali’, Picasso, Modigliani, de Chirico and others; until July 12.