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Mónica Boixeda
Until the 10th of July, the Complesso del Vittoriano Museum in Rome is showing “The Queen of the Modern,” which is organised around the work of the artist and figure most famous within the modernism movement of the 20s and 30s: Tamara Lempicka. The exhibition was commissioned by Lempicka expert Gioia Mori, and comprises of 90 paintings, 30 drawings, and 50 photographs which belong to private and public collections from all round the world. There is also documentary footage depicting the era, and the artistic scene. The show has been supported and sponsored by museums National Varsovia, Malraux in Le Havre, des Beaux Arts in Nantes, Blanton Museum of Art in Austin and the Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Métropole. Many of the works in the exhibition have never been shown before – such as the five paintings belonging to the private collection of Jack Nicholson, and another from 1923 which has only been seen before in black and white photos. Tamara Lempicka was born in Varsovia in 1898. The daughter of a wealthy Polish family, she developed an ease with fitting in with the great salons of the era, and socialising with the bourgeoisie and artists of the time. She married lawyer Tedeusz Lempicki in St Petersburg, but the October Revolution forced them to uproot to Holland, where she assumed a liberal, open lifestyle, and took up with young lovers, bringing an end to the marriage – though the couple didn´t actually separate until many years later in Paris. Paris changed things for Lempicka. It transformed her tastes, relationships and her interests – and it was there...
Mónica Boixeda
When one visits another country they want to (and have to) take back home a special souvenir from that country or city that they visited and liked so much. That´s why, in Florence, you can find the best gift to take back home in the paper shop Giannini Giulio & Figlio. Founded in 1811 in Piazza Pitti, this small shop that only sold paper became a city classic, an icon that tourists love to visit for its age, its products and its history. The shop sells all sorts of products made or decorated with paper. The papers are of the best quality and they´re very diverse. There are handmade ones or prefrabricated ones, but all of them have a special distinction and the groups of notebooks, notepads, almanacs and agendas that they make in Giannini Giulio & Figlio are wonderful. Everyone who visits Florence should stop by this shop to buy a souvenir of this city or to buy a nice present to take back home. They will surely find a unique handmade product that they will love. If you want to see this and other classic shops in the city, rent apartments in Florence and enjoy the city, its products and its...
Mónica Boixeda
San Lorenzo Market is another of the famous markets in the city of Florence, which offers the tourist the opportunity to see many products and brands in the same place and at an excellent price. Although it´s closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, the rest of the week it concentrates everyone´s whole attention, because it´s a city classic. Not only do tourists go there to buy souvenirs or compare prices but also the people of Florence go and do their everyday shopping there. It´s in the centre of the city, a few minutes away from the famous Duomo of Florence. San Lorenzo market located itself in the Piazza San Lorenzo, next to the church with the same name. And when one is there seeing the city, they can go to poke around what is being sold in the famous market of the Italian city. Because Florence is the textile capital of Italy, there you can find excellent quality garments at a really low price. So don´t miss out on visiting this market if you´re in the city. To be relaxed in the city and being able to walk through every corner of it, rent apartments in Florence and go out to the streets with a map in your...
Mónica Boixeda
The Bargello Museum is the second most visited in the whole of the city of Florence. It´s housed in a building that dates of 1255 and that in the 16th century was converted into the Bargello residency (that was, at the time, the most important police place) and that, at the same time, was used as a prison. Some time after, in the 19th century, they donated this place to the National Museum and they transformed it into the splendid place that it is today and that houses some of the most important sculptures and decorative art in the world. The visit to this place starts in a beautiful patio that gives way to the lower floor. In this place you can enjoy exhibited works by artists such as Michelangelo. Among them there´s the bust of Brutus or the statue of David-Apolo. There´s also some of the first works that Donatello created, on the first floor, and among them is a statue of David made of marble, a statue of Saint George and another one of David in bronze. This is one of the museums of the Italian city that you cannot miss because not only because the works that it presents are invaluable to the art world but also because the building where it is located is a true monument in itself. You can rent apartments in Florence and be able to walk through its...
Mónica Boixeda
The Uffizi Gallery is a world famous museum because they exhibit the most important masterpieces of various Italian and worldwide artists. The style that predominates in the museum is Renaissance but there´s also primitive paintings. Some of the artists that predominate in the Galleria Uffizi are: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rafael Sanzio, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt to name a few. The building occupied by the museum was previously a government building that was taken by the State offices, and from there it receives its name from the Italian “uffici”, which means offices. Today, the Galleria Uffizi, is on the last floor of the building. The Duke Francesco I was the creator of this art gallery that was subsequently completed by many other families, like the Medici, who were great collectors of frescos and sculptures. In the 16th century, the gallery had workshops to cut and process precious stones, porcelain and creative sculpturing. And only at the end of that century did the museum open its doors to the public. Today it´s the Italian State who is in charge of the collection. If you want to visit the Galleria Uffizi, rent apartments in Florence and discover the wonders of the...
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