Valtiberina - Finestre sull'Arte

There was a fascist internment camp in the Valtiberina: Camp No. 97 in Renicci

Little is known about the tragic history of the Renicci Internment Camp, located in the municipality of Anghiari, Valtiberina: yet it represents one of the most dramatic and least known episodes in Italian history during World War II. The camp, offic...
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The Republic of Cospaia: history of a state born by mistake in Valtiberina

Visiting the Museum of Palazzo Taglieschi in Anghiari, where a marvelous polychrome wood sculpture by Jacopo della Quercia is preserved, you will happen to come across a very curious slab made of pietra serena, a typical material of this area of Tusc...
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Ceramic Treasures. The extraordinary spread of robbiane in the Valtiberina.

Along the banks of the upper Tiber River lies the Valtiberina, a land known for its splendid landscapes but also for its contribution to art. Here, in fact, were born Michelangelo and Piero della Francesca, who also left some of his most significant ...
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The museum of ordinary lives: the Little Diary Museum in Pieve Santo Stefano

Imagine a room full of bookshelves, where each book does not tell the story of a famous person, but that of an individual like us, with his joys, fears and hopes. A sea of human experiences, from the letters of a soldier at the front during World War...
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Tradition and modernity: the Polyptych of Mercy by Piero della Francesca

On June 11, 1445, the ancient company of Santa Maria della Misericordia of Borgo San Sepolcro commissioned Piero della Francesca (Borgo San Sepolcro, c. 1412 - 1492) to paint a panel to be placed in the confraternity's church, obliging the artist to ...
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Piero della Francesca's house in Sansepolcro: when artist's home meets research

"He left in the Borgo bonissime facultà et alcune case che egli stesso si aveva edificate, le quali per le parti furono arseite e rovinate l'anno 1536." So wrote Giorgio Vasari in the Life of Piero della Francesca, pointing out how, although t...
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Jacopo della Quercia's Madonna in Anghiari: a sculpture...versatile.

A marvelous Renaissance wooden sculpture has been enriching the state heritage since 1977: it is the Madonna and Child by Jacopo della Quercia (Siena, c. 1374 - 1438), purchased that year by the Superintendency of Arezzo and now the most important wo...
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The Battle of Anghiari: from Leonardo's masterpiece to the landscape witness of the

The Battle of Anghiari, although a rather important historical episode, would not be a well-known fact to most people today if it did not tie its memory to Leonardo da Vinci and the famous painting that the genius from Vinci allegedly began and never...
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