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November 4, 2018
The Arno Floods the City of Florence on November 4 1966.

October 28, 2018
Pietro Annigoni died on October 28, 1988 in Florence.

January 29, 2018
Italian painter and draughtsman Giuliano Bugiardini was born in Florence on 29 January 1475.

November 4, 2017
On View: The Cinquecento in Florence: From Michelangelo and Pontormo to Giambologna (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence)

October 23, 2017
On 23 October 1461, Florentine painter Benozzo Gozzoli was contracted to paint an altarpiece for the new oratory of the Compagnia di Santa Maria della Purificazione e di San Zanobi, a youth confraternity sponsored by Cosimo de’Medici at San Marco in Florence.

September 9, 2017
The exhibition “The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and Seventeenth Century Florence” is currently on display at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

August 7, 2017
Cesare Maccari died on 7 August 1919 in Siena, after a career as an award winning painter best known for his classically-inspired compositions.

February 17, 2017
Italian painter and draughtsman Giuliano Bugiardini died on 17 February 1554.

November 4, 2016
4 November marks the anniversary of the great 1966 flood of the Arno river, the worst since 1557.

October 16, 2016
Painter, writer, and composer Primo Conti was born in Florence on 16 October 1900.