Pisa - Finestre sull'Arte

Treasures from Wunderkammer: the skull with coral from the Museum of Natural History in Pisa

The skull with coral is one of the most famous and at the same time most fascinating artifacts in the Natural History Museum of Pisa, which is housed at the Certosa di Calci. The skull, presumably dated to a period between the 16th and 17th centuries...
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The University of Pisa's Gipsoteca d'Arte Antica, a collection of classical statues in a church

One of the most fascinating and least known places of Pisa's cultural heritage: it is the Gipsoteca di Arte Antica , which, together with theAntiquarium, is part of theUniversity of Pisa's Sistema Museale di Ateneo: an institution that combines histo...
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Administrative documents on pottery from ancient Egypt: the ostrakas of Oxyrhynchus

The Egyptological Collections of theUniversity of Pisa, part of the Athenaeum Museum System, preserve a most precious treasure for the study of Egyptian society: they are the ostrakas of Ossirinco, which represent an extraordinary body of historical,...
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Between history and the avant-garde, Enrico Cagianelli's Umbrian Nativity.

There was a time in the history of Italy when putting up a Christmas tree was a custom looked upon with suspicion: it was the 1930s, and Fascism was concerned with discouraging what is perhaps today the most beloved Christmas decoration, on the groun...
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The first pc in history: the Olivetti Programma 101, an Italian masterpiece of engineering and design

Among the display cases at the Museo degli Strumenti di Calcolo inPisa, one of the institutes of theUniversity of Pisa's Sistema Museale d'Ateneo , it is possible to come across an extraordinary relic from the history of computing, Olivetti's Program...
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When Donatello and Masaccio agreed on the Renaissance revolution in Pisa.

The Museo Nazionale di San Matteo in Pisa holds a very special record: it is the only museum in the world where, in the same building, it is possible to see a work by Donatello and a work by Masaccio, that is, by the father of Renaissance sculpture a...
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The lands of Pisa in the paintings of the Macchiaioli.

Landscape painting represents one of the most heartfelt subjects of the Macchiaiolo movement, which has left us pieces of great intensity on the genre that can testify to that new approach that the Tuscan group, proponents of a reborn realism, was ab...
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Pisa, what to see: 15 places not to miss

Pisa is a city that lives suspended between the past and the present: world-famous for its Leaning Tower, Pisa offers much more to its visitors than one can imagine. Situated along the banks of theArno River, Pisa was one of the four Maritime Republ...
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