Mugello and Tuscany Events | Monsignor della Casa

The several attractions in downtown Florence can be easily reached from our resort  by car with a 40-minute drive or by train from the railway station in Borgo San Lorenzo.
Hereafter the major art exhibitions of the year 2012 in Florence.

Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists
Palazzo Strozzi, from March 3^rdto July 15^th, 2012
Curated by: Francesca Bardazzi and Carlo Sisi

 Exactly 500 years since the death of Amerigo Vespucci, Florence will be marking this event with an exhibition designed to celebrate the strong ties linking the Old World and the New. The exhibition explores the American impressionists' relationship with Italy, and with Florence in particular, in the decades spanning the close of the 19th and dawn of the 20th centuries. The main part of the exhibition will comprise works by artists like John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Merrit Chase, John Henry Twachman and Frederick Childe Hassam and Franck Duveneck.

American Dreamers. Reality and imagination in contemporary art
Palazzo Strozzi, from March 9^thto July 15^th, 2012
Curated by Bartholomew F. Bland.

Does the “American dream” still exist? Since 11 September 2011 the United States of America has witnessed the collapse of its sense of invulnerability and security. The exhibition comprises a reflection on the work of artists who use fantasy, imagination and dreams to build alternative worlds to the increasingly complex reality of life today.

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   The Thirties. The Arts in Italy during Fascism  
Palazzo Strozzi, from September 22^nd, 2012 to January27th, 2013
Curated by: Antonello Negri with Silvia Bignami, Paolo Rusconi and Giorgio Zanchetti; Florence section curated by Susanna Ragionieri

Italyin the 1930s, when Fascism ruled the country, was the scene of an extremely vigorous artistic battle in which every style or trend, from classicism to Futurism, from expressionism to abstract art, and from monumental art to decorative painting for the bourgeois home was involved, from design to mass communication. In short, art during the Thirties was a complex and dynamic public workshop, open to international influence, which paved the way for the modern era