Wednesday Lectures
Poggio Bracciolini: Travel and Treasure Hunting in the Age of Humanism
Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom
Fighting spirits
Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom
Medieval Politics: Guelfs vs. Ghibellines
Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom
Moore in Florence
Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom
TOSCANA… SARDA? Politics, Propaganda and Plebiscite in 19th-century Florence
Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom
Past events
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
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