Wednesday Lectures
The history of 'pudge' in the Renaissance
Wednesday Lecture by Alan Pascuzzi, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom
Dickens in Florence
Wednesday Lecture by Mark Roberts, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom
The Great Florentine Libraries: The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Wednesday Lecture by Lisa Kaborycha, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom
Mary and Bernard Berenson Before and After I Tatti
Wednesday Lecture by Carl Strehlke, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom
I Mazzei: a great winemaking tradition
Wednesday Lecture by Lapo Mazzei and Wine Tasting
Past events
Beyond the Medici Chapel: Benozzo Gozzoli in Florence
Women in Dante
Florence Cathedral: Church As Well As Monument
WARD ROUND AT THE UFFIZI
The Grand Duke and the Merchant of Pisa: Ferdinando I's Relations with the Jews of Tuscany
SECRETS OF THE FLORENTINE MASTERS: DRAPERY STUDIES
Omnium Gatherum: American Sculptors in Risorgimento Italy
Sir Horace Mann and the Grand Tourists
A Castle in Chianti – the Story of Sonnino
Guardians and Messengers: Archangels in Florence
Pinocchio in Florence
Monumental Dante
Currency of Diplomacy: Friendship, Propaganda and the Power of Renaissance Portrait Medals
Artists' Payment in the Renaissance
Urban safari: Lions, Giraffes, Monkeys and a Hippo in Renaissance Florence
The monumental complex of Santa Croce, instructions for use - Narrating seven hundred years of history and building for the future
George Eliot and the writing of Romola
Ghiberti´s homage to Brunelleschi - artistic rivalry in early 15th century Florence
From Moore to Gormley and beyond: contemporary presences in the cradle of the Renaissance
TOSCANA… SARDA? Politics, Propaganda and Plebiscite in 19th-century Florence
Henry Moore and Tuscany
Medieval Politics: Guelfs vs. Ghibellines
Fighting spirits
Poggio Bracciolini: Travel and Treasure Hunting in the Age of Humanism
The Acton-Mitchell Family at Villa La Pietra: Writing, Collecting, and Gardening
Patterns of Patronage in Santo Spirito
Bronze Casting in the Renaissance
The Tower that Giotto never built
The Birth of Opera in Renaissance Italy
Power and Sexuality in Renaissance Art
Walter Savage Landor in Florence
Sculpture and Scrutiny: Public Art and Public Opinion in Florence
Alessandro Sinigaglia and Florentine Resistance
Godi, Fiorenza! Dante’s Poetic (and other) Feelings about Florence
On Art, Feminism and Eros: Mina Loy and the Avant-garde in Florence
A Taste of Modernity - The Tuscan Wine Revolution
The Origin of the Renaissance Palace Typology in Florence, 1382-1432
Fallen Marys: The Magdalene and Other Wayward Saints in Renaissance Art
Rediscovering the Raphael Cartoons at the V&A
The Recovery Plan: Recovering Blackness and Recovering from Florence’s Historical Narration
Il Parco delle Cascine
The Art of Goldsmithing: the Secret of the early Renaissance?
House of Secrets 2: Eccentricity and Debauchery in fin de siècle Florence
Settignano
Some 20th Century Literary Visitors to Florence
The Epicurean Machiavelli
Il Borgo Ognissanti
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