A new exhibition in Italy puts the spotlight on Fra Angelico, whose reputation for piety vied with his undeniable artistic ...

ROME, SEP 24 - Florence is celebrating Fra Angelico in the biggest ever homage to the 15th-century artistic pioneer at two major venues in the Tuscan capital with loans from all over the world. It is ...

French-born artist JR has unveiled one of his most dramatic works yet on the façade of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, creating an illusory 28m-tall crack in the building that appears to split the ...

As half of Italy heads back into lockdown, the French artist JR has unveiled a major installation on the façade of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence that stresses the importance of maintaining access to ...

A new show marrying the work of German artist, Gerhard Richter, with that of seven other international artists is now on at the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), in Florence's Palazzo ...

French-born street artist JR has placed a massive, black-and-white image over the front facade of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, making it seem as if the cultural building has been ripped open and ...

In 1466, when Filippo Strozzi was allowed to return to Florence following his banishment by the rival Medici family, he set out to build the city’s grandest palazzo as an act of status and power.

In Florence the magnificent internal courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi has for years been used as a space for temporary site-specific installations. Often centred on the topic of eco-sustainability In ...

Sadly, the name may not mean much. Jacopo Pontormo is a Florentine painter whose fate it was to come of age in the years after the high tide of the High Renaissance. Its vast shadow has left him ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where do you go after perfection? That was the dilemma that confronted the artists who followed Leonardo, ...

French-born artist JR has unveiled one of his most dramatic works yet on the façade of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, creating an illusory 28m-tall crack in the building that appears to split the ...