Photo albums

Here is where you'll find our our photo albums featuring events scheduled throughout the year. Some photographs are professionally produced, others are snapshots from Calliope Arts' fans and friends. Either way, you'll get a sense of the foundation's work and the many people who inspire or participate in our activities, from historic site visits to museum inaugurals and more.

Album: La Foce, garden walk

On 9 April 2025, as part of our 'garden project', nature lovers had the opportunity to stroll through the grounds of La Foce, thanks to a special tour with estate manager and co-owner Katia Lysy, whose new book, La Foce: Paradise in Tuscany , recounts the 'garden within a garden' that her grandparents Antonio and Iris Origo built, whilst working to reclaim large swathes of the Val d'Orcia, for agriculture. Iris Origo, well-known for books like Images and Shadows or War in Va

Album: A March visit to Il Palmerino

Here’s a glimpse of Il Palmerino, thanks to shared photos by Sara Papini. On a stormy day in mid-March, a brave group of ‘garden project’ aficionados enjoyed of visit of the home and garden of English author Vernon Lee and English painter and poet Lola Costa. These two women whose cultural contributions to early-twentieth-century Florence remain little known but hugely significant today. Il Palmerino, a cultural centre, family home and working farm is a garden oasis for moder

Album: Vanessa Bell Exhibition

140 works at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes make up the venue’s newest exhibition: ‘Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour’, which...

Album: Five WOWS from the 5,000 Negatives’ project

Are you curious to see five samples representative of the wonderful outcomes of our project ’5,000 Negatives’? The project, designed to...

Album: At the exhibition 'Return Home. Lola Costa at Il Palmerino'

June 26, 2024 saw the opening of the exhibition ‘Return Home: Lola Costa at Il Palmerino’. “Lola Costa’s art does not protest the status...

Album: Curator and conservator speak of 'stellar women'

Presenter Linda Falcone interviews National Central Library conservator Alessandro Sidoti and Natacha Fabbri, scientific curator from...

Album: Backstage with '5,000 Negatives'

Safeguarding the Wulz sisters’ legacy at FAF at Art Defender Autumn 2023 marked the start of a new collaborative project called ‘ 5,000 Negatives’ , aimed at safeguarding the sisters legacy, through inventorying, restoration, digitalisation and archive accessibility of the Wulz Photographic Studio Archive of Trieste, a treasure trove of negatives, prints and archival documentation acquired by Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia (FAF) in 1986. This project, developed by FAF,

Album: Palace Women exhibition

On October 30, 2023, organisers Il Palmerino Cultural Association, the British Institute of Florence and Calliope Arts inaugurated the...

Header photo: Marco Badiani, ‘View of Florence’s Duomo’