Pisa - Finestre sull'Arte

A centuries-old tradition: the Pisa Bridge Game in ancient depictions

"For Game is too much, for war is too little ." With these words, in 1807, Marie Louise, Queen Regent of Etruria, put an end to the Gioco del Ponte in Pisa, only one edition of which was contested throughout the 19th century. The event resumed in the...
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The Museum of Computing Instruments and the Museum of Physics Instruments at the University of Pisa.

TheUniversity of Pisa was officially founded in 1343, but already in previous centuries the city was frequented by students taking classes with celebrated masters, among whom was mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. This ancient institution cloaked in g...
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The Pisa sinopites. what they are, what they were used for, how they were discovered

A collection that is widely described as "unique in the world": that of the Museo delle Sinopie in Pisa, consisting entirely of sinopites. One could define sinopia as the preparatory drawing of a fresco: it is one of the least known elements of medie...
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Suspended between sea and sky: the scales of Bocca d'Arno in art

Between October and November 2023, the whole of Europe is lashed violently by storm Ciarán, which also hits Italy. Tuscany is one of the hardest hit regions both inland and along the coast; the damage count is very heavy, eight dead and severa...
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Between Wunderkammer and science: the Museum of Natural History from the Charterhouse of Calci

In the flourishing Val Graziosa, at the foot of Monte Pisano, the monumental and ebony Certosa di Calci stands out against the green meadows and woods. It is an articulated monastic complex that from the mid-14th century until the 1970s kept its func...
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The Luminara of San Ranieri in Pisa: origins and history of the festival of lights

Every year, on June 16, the palaces that line Pisa 's lungarni are lit up with tens of thousands of lights: this is the Luminara di San Ranieri, one of the most fascinating and long-lived events held in the city of the Leaning Tower, an annual event ...
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The Painter and the Scientist. The friendship between Galileo Galilei and Cigoli.

Throughout human history, the relationship between art and science has always been fruitful, complex and multifaceted with roots going back to antiquity and developing continuously throughout the centuries. The relationship between these two fields o...
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The extraordinary story of Keith Haring's making of Tuttomondo in Pisa

An elderly gentleman from another era, wearing a jacket, bow tie, fedora and walking stick, looks up to observe on the scaffolding a young artist convulsively tracing strange figures on a wall with his brush to the rhythm of hip hop music . He looks ...
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