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Inside 'Artemisia in the Museum of Michelangelo'

Join us online at 7 pm Italy time, on September 27, 2023 On opening day of ‘Artemisia in the Museum of Michelangelo’ at Florence’s Casa...

FROM BIANCA CAPPELLO TO BOBOLI’S GREEN

October 21 (in English) at 4pm Tour with Freya’s Florence Admission: 25 euro per person Invitation photo by Sabina Bernacchini, Gruppo...

FEMALE FORERUNNERS: ‘A ROOM OF THEIR OWN’

October 18, 2023 at 6pm Lecture by Linda Falcone (online and on site) British Institute of Florence, Wednesday Lecture Series. Lungarno...

SCORING SUFFERAGE

Friday, September 29, 2023 at 6 pm How did music score and underscore the swell of women’s increasing liberties at the turn of the...

Palace Women: Oltrarno and Beyond

September-December 2023 --- FULL PROGRAMME The ‘Palace women’ programme rediscovers female forerunners in the monumental Florentine...

Calliope debuts on Bloomberg Connects

Calliope Arts is happy to announce its debut on ‘Bloomberg Connects’, an app expanding access to art and culture by providing free...

Live Broadcast at restoration laboratory Opificio delle Pietre Dure

With conservator SIMONA CALZA Photo courtesy of Opificio delle Pietre Dure, G. Zicarelli A ‘Restoration Conversation’ at Florence’s...

Artemisia Upclose: The RESTORATION

This 'Wednesday lecture', at the British Institute of Florence, is sponsored by Calliope Arts, as part of our mission to expand public...

Galileo and Grand Duchess Christina

Join the livestream at Museo Galileo in Florence ‘Restoration Conversations’, streamed live from the Galileo Museum in Florence. Tune in,...

Brigida Baldinotti: The most celebrated writer of the 1400s

Though virtually unknown today, the epistles of Brigida Baldinotti circulated widely in Florentine manuscript collections during the 15th...

Rosalba Carriera: The 'first' painter of Europe

Broadcast now online Scholar Angela Oberer continues the lecture series sponsored by Calliope Arts, at the British Institute of Florence,...

A league of their own…

March 1, 2023, now online A Calliope Arts-sponsored lecture at the BIF In 2023, Calliope Arts kicked off its first lecture series at the...

EVENT: Artemisia: View the restoration in progress

Special opening of Casa Buonarroti for TF readers Tuesday, February 10, 12pm to 1.30pm Artemisia UpClose in Progress, ph. Olga Makarova...

Calliope Arts' 'Gold' lecture series at the British Institute of Florence

This 2023 lecture series, supported by a Gold Sponsorship from Calliope Arts, at the British Institute, aims to share insight and...

'Restoration Conversations' at 'Fotografe!' - Villa Bardini / Sept 12, 2022

Don't miss the September 12, 2022 episode of 'Restoration Conversations', live-streamed from Florence's Villa Bardini. Presenter Linda...

Fotografe! Explore the Alinari Archives and Contemporary Perspectives

From June 18 to October 2, 2022, the exhibition 'Fotografe! Women photographers: Alinari Archives and Contemporary Perspectives' is on...

A Century of Women in the Arts (1866-1966). Exploring Florence's 'forgotten century'

'A Century of Women in the Arts (1866-1966)' is an exciting new course organised by the British Institute of Florence, in collaboration...

Oltarno Gaze 2022 Programme: Today's talents take cues from historic women artists

Until June 16, the Oltrarno Gaze 2022 exhibition and events series is a dialogue through the centuries that forges a bridge between...

PORTRAIT DIALOGUES: Painters Sam Bordley, Lydia Chapman and Emily Rogers

From March 19 to April 22, 2022, international artists debut with a series of portraits featuring friends from Florence's Oltrarno...

STITCHING ARTISTS INTO HISTORY: A call to writers

History belongs to those whose stories are told. Until April 20, 2022, writers in Florence and farther afield are invited to send their...

Header photo: Marco Benvenuti, ‘At the Atelier degli Artigianelli’, 2021.

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