Federico Zuccari - Finestre sull'Arte

The rare copy of Vasari's Lives at auction is in public hands: bought by the City of Siena

The rare copy of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, the first edition of 1568 with manuscript notes by Federico Zuccari that went up for auction last Wednesday, Dec. 15, at Pandolfini's in Florence, ends up in public hands: the three precious volumes were in fa...
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Rare first edition of Vasari's Lives at auction, with notes by Federico Zuccari

It is certainly an exceptional auction that started yesterday, online, at the Pandolfini House in Florence: the auction timed Books, Manuscripts and Autographs, running until Dec. 15, in fact contains an extraordinary surprise that awaits all scholar...
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Uffizi launches virtual exhibition on Dante with Federico Zuccari's Commedia drawings

The year dedicated to the celebrations of the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri (Florence, 1265 - Ravenna, 1321) begins immediately, and the year of art also begins, albeit in a virtual form: for the first day of 2021, in fa...
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Uffizi, for Ferragosto a virtual exhibition on the Assumption

To celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, the Uffizi Gallery is offering a virtual exhibition on its official website dedicated to Mary's passage to Heaven, not only in spirit but also in body, as the mother of Christ. The Palatine Gallery in the Pi...
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What did Dante's face look like? Thirty artists give their version in Ravenna. Special guest Milo Manara

About thirty artists will gather from September 6 to October 20, 2019 at the Oriani Library in Ravenna for the group exhibition One, None and a Hundred Thousand Faces. The entire city will remember Dante Alighieri in September, and the artists, with ...
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From Michelangelo to Caravaggio, the Eternal and Time exhibition in Forli.

The exhibition L'Eterno e il tempo tra Michelangelo e Caravaggio (Eternity and Time between Michelangelo and Caravaggio), the new exhibition of the San Domenico Museums in Forlì, is scheduled from Feb. 10 to June 17, 2018, and is set up for th...
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The 16th century in Florence: here is the exhibition presented as "unrepeatable and unique"

"An unrepeatable and unique event" is how the exhibition The Sixteenth Century in Florence, being held in Florence's Palazzo Strozzi from Sept. 21, 2017 to Jan. 21, 2018, is presented. Michelangelo, Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Bronz...
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