Candida Höfer’s Florentine ‘Portraits of Spaces’

Twenty monumental photographs by the German photographer Candida Höfer can be seen at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi’s exhibition Candida Höfer In Italy, Part 1: Florence. Portraits of Spaces. The exhibition, which runs from December 11, 2009 to January 24, 2010, takes place under the auspices of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and gives the visitor a unique opportunity to see some of Florence’s most impressive interiors of libraries, museums and theatres gathered together in one show.
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Art and Illusions

For the very first time in Italy an exhibition is telling the intriguing and spectacular story of trompe-l’œil, or optical deception -the story of the eternal challenge between reality and its simulation, not only in the context of painting but in the many different disciplines that have made it so universally popular in European art. The exhibition Art and Illusions. Masterpieces of trompe-l'œil from antiquity to the present is tracing the fascinating history of trompe-l'oeil, or the art of depicting something that is not real as though it were real, graces the splendid Renaissance rooms of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from October 16, 2009 to January 24, 2010.
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And yet it moves…

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical discoveries made by Galileo, the United Nations has dedicated 2009 as International Astronomy Year. To mark this anniversary, Florence pays tribute to the human and intellectual adventures of one of its greatest geniuses with a rich and spectacular exhibition: Galileo. Images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope is on display at the Palazzo Strozzi until August 30, 2009.
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