Planting the Way
Anatole Tchikine, who joined the Institute’s faculty in 2010 as Professor of Art History, has recently […]
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A New Way to Flip Through the Renaissance
Scholars inevitably find that, in many Florentine libraries and archives, titles of Renaissance manuscripts are […]
How Art Saved the City’s Soul
[slideshow] Last July, Franco Pisani (Prof. of Architecture, ISI Florence) organized the international design workshop […]
A Collaboration: Humanism and Tuscan Universities of the Past
Prestigious Italian publishing house Le Lettere has recently published a collection of conference proceedings, co-sponsored […]
Rethinking the Russian Renaissance
Did Russia have a Renaissance? ISI professor Anatole Tchikine asked this question in a lecture […]
Auditing Florence’s Auditorium
[slideshow] Mazes, theaters and the Cascine… At the end of March, the “Professione Architetto” foundation […]
The Lily Bites the Viper
Prof. Stefano U. Baldassarri has just published a volume, The Viper and the Lily. The […]
Palazzo Rucellai, “Bestsellers of the Renaissance”
How did the book market work in the sixteenth century? How were books produced and […]
Lest we forget: Fascism and Holocaust
Every year, on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Forum on the […]
Barcaccia, a fountain of discovery
Anatole Tchikine’s article “Galera, Navicella, Barcaccia? Bernini’s Fountain in Piazza di Spagna Revisited” was published […]