The art in Florence with italianme will make you discover the city.
Florence, the city where you are following an Italian course for music and theater or the course of art history, is the city of art for excellence. Every street, every building, every square tells it story. Therefore, everything is beautiful in Florence?
In Italy there is an idiom that helps us to answer this question. “It is not beautiful what is beautiful but it is beautiful but what we like”.
Also in Florence there are monuments, buildings, sculptures, whose conception of beauty has made people talk.

The first example refers to the Piazza della Signoria. On the left of Palazzo Vecchio there is a fountain depicting Neptune, how many of us have photographed it? It is a work of art! but imagine that the contemporaries of Bartolomeo Ammannati, sculptor of the monument, did not share this idea. The Florentines with their polemical spirit, when they saw the white marble sculpture did not think twice to exclaim: “Ammannato, Ammannato how much marble you have wasted.”

The second example, you won’t be able to see, as its construction was suspended at birth: Isozaki pergola. In the late 90s the Japanese architect won an international competition to complete the area at the exit of the Uffizi with a proposal for a gigantic pergola, reflecting a contemporary style of the Renaissance art. This modern, refined and radical architecture raised many complaints from the Florentines, to the point that we are still awaiting for its implementation.

The latest example is the new headquarters of the Court of Florence of the architect Leonardo Ricci. It opened in 2013 and that can be seen on arrival to the Florence airport. The Florentines immediately have it called Gotham City, huge, tall, modern. Too huge, too tall, too modern, for our Renaissance city!