Hyperallergic

Donatello's Florence Cathedral Sculptures Cross the Atlantic for the First Time

Nanni di Banco, “St. Luke the Evangelist” (1408–13), marble, and Donatello, “St. John the Evangelist” (1408–15), marble, both of which were in niches alongside the Florence Cathedral’s main portal and ...
Digital Journal

Florence cathedral closed as Italy’s Tuscany on flood alert

Rainfall swells the Arno river under the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence on Friday - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP Andrej Ivanov Rainfall swells the Arno ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Florence's historic monuments targeted in $35M international fraud scheme

Intercepting email correspondence, criminals posed as a company that carried out restoration and conservation work and received nearly 1.8 million euros from it. Italian police said on Thursday they ...
The New York Times

CENTRAL ITALY.; Completion of the Cathedral at Florence The Royal Visit A Year of Freedom.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
The Next Web

Florence uses ‘digital graffiti’ to protect its cathedral

You can barely walk two feet in Italy without coming across a beautiful monument, full of rich history and deep meaning. Unfortunately, the same could be said of drunks and vandals. Italians are ...
BusinessWorld

Florence cathedral managers fall prey to €1.5-million e-mail fraud

ROME — Italian police said on Thursday they had broken up an international criminal organization that had swindled some €30 million ($35.2 million) from victims including the cultural body that ...
PBS

Marble that built Florence Cathedral in record demand

The Pantheon temple in Rome glistens with precious, white marble from Italy’s town of Carrara, a stone that was prized by the ancient Romans and Renaissance masters. Now, extraction rates of 5,000 ...