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Posts Tagged ‘studentsville’
A landmark en passant…
For a great number of Florentines the familiar small, walled oval hill on piazzale Donatello is little more than a roundabout.
Granted, it is a rather mysterious roundabout, higher than most, revealing peaks of elegant cypresses and glimpses of marble tombstones, but undoubtedly a landmark en passant for the modern motorist speeding along the wide viale from piazza Libertà down towards the Arno. However, this urban island, housing the originally named Cimitero Protestante di Porta a’ Pinti, described by custodian Julia Bolton Holloway as ‘a place dense with meaning, a burning glass of history,’ is a worthy destination in itself.
As an English woman living only five minutes away from the ‘English Cemetery’ and knowing embarrassingly little about it, I decided to find out more. Unbeknown to many, the cemetery is actually open for ash burials of all faiths, the most recent having taken place over Easter 2010.
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See the art making
How does an artist work?
What does a studio tells us about an artist’s working practice, and what can 
the artist tell us when he is working in his studio?
These private and otherwise inaccessible workshops in the region of Florence, Prato and Pistoia are to open their doors to the public for a year and to welcome into their inner sanctums anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of contemporary art through direct interaction with the leading players themselves, chosen from among several generations of artists. » Read more…