Wednesday Lectures
Il Borgo Ognissanti
At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom
The Epicurean Machiavelli
At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom
Some 20th Century Literary Visitors to Florence
At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom
Settignano
At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom
Past events
Leonardo, Zeffirelli and the Corsi family
Did Raphael have a Florentine Period?
American sculptors in Florence
Il Sesto di San Piero Scheraggio: History, Art and Life in the Heart of Florence’s Historic Centre.
New Jerusalem: Florence, the Medici and the Jews during the Renaissance
Firenze NOW!
'With exquisite workmanship and skill': il parato di S.Giovanni embroidered from designs by Antonio Pollaiolo
Boccaccio’s Decameron: a guide to Life after the Plague
James Joyce was born in Florence
Twelve and a half Centuries in Twelve and a half Hectares
Oscar Wilde’s loyal friend Reggie: Reginald Turner in Florence
House of Secrets: Palazzo Rucellai
Tuscany, the Mediterranean and the birth of Europe
LA COSTA SAN GIORGIO IN OLTRARNO: An uphill encounter with Florence’s Southside
Healing not Broken
Florentine Renaissance Art In The Domestic Sphere: Art And Daily Life In Renaissance Florence
La Piazza della Santissima Annunziata - A Renaissance Crossway of Faith, Charity and Hope
Early Anglo-Florentines, and some 18th-century visitors to Florence
Virtual Event - Portraits and Selfies : the evolution of tourism in Florence
ART STORIES - TOSCANA… SARDA? Politics, Propaganda and Plebiscite in 19th-century Florence
The apprenticeship and early lives of Leonardo and Michelangelo: a comparison
Talking Pictures
Getting the message through: composers, scores, performers
Talking Pictures
Renaissance food and banqueting
MUSIC AL BRITISH - Ashley Fripp (piano)
The midwives at the Nativity
ART STORIES - POGGIO BRACCIOLINI: Travel and Treasure Hunting in the Age of Humanism
Some nineteenth-century literary visitors to Florence
Talking Pictures
Florence and the changing concept of childhood
MUSIC AL BRITISH - Warwick Lister (violin) and James Gray (piano)
Pierrot: a silent witness of changing times
Talking Pictures
A mausoleum for the Medici: the Pollaiuolo in the provinces
ART STORIES - The Tower that Giotto Never Built
The Orion Piano Trio
Building a monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista
ART STORIES SERIES - To Giorgio with Love:Vasari’s Lives of the Artists in the Age of Academic Painting
The boy bishop, the feast of fools and the feast of asses
Talking Pictures...again
The Pinocchio papers: what Italy’s best-loved fable tells us about the Italians and their country today
ART STORIES SERIES - Urban safari: Lions, Giraffes, Monkeys and a Hippo in Renaissance Florence
Music al British
Monsters and why we need them
Talking Pictures...again
Plautilla Nelli’s Last Supper
ART STORIES SERIES - River Babies: Infant Navigators of the Historic Arno River Floods
A Royal Tourist in Florence
Talking Pictures...again
Music al British
The limits of medicine
ART STORIES SERIES - Medici Maladies: Gout, Cannonballs, Murder and Syphilis in the Medici Family Tree
How music learning and listening affect brain structure and function
Talking Pictures...again
The Villa Farnese at Caprarola and its gardens
ART STORIES SERIES - Sculpture and Scrutiny: : Public Art and Public Opinion in Florence (Past and Present)
Music al British
Book Aid International: the stories of our lives
Andrea del Verrocchio, master of Leonardo da Vinci
Insieme 200: celebrating 200 years of US diplomatic presence in Florence
La passione: how Italy seduced the world
Death in Venice: corpses, cemeteries and Catholicism
The lady is a spy: Stan Harding in Florence
Roma Britannica: Britain and the British in the Latin inscriptions of Rome
The Shepheardes Calender (World premiere performance)
Resubstantiating antiquity: revival and architectural reuse in the Renaissance
Resurrection: the iconography of Easter
Killing Caesar
Becoming Michelangelo
Twenty-five years after the English translation of Carlo Rosselli’s ‘Socialismo Liberale’: meaning and prospective
Giuliano da Sangallo’s non-conformist Renaissance
Lovely faces: the biology of beauty