Art and Architecture in Tuscany

Why be bothered waiting in long hot lines, when you can reserve a spot in advance at one of the more famous museums in all of Tuscany.  Do it yourself, with contained reservation fees - read about this and other museums right here. Or why bother waiting in any lines when you aren't sure if this is the right museum.  There are so many truely interesting places in the many towns of Tuscany - check out the places you might be interested in before you get to the ticket booth.

A forerunner in color and design, Piero della Francesca has left some beautiful pieces of artwork in the Arezzo area.

The opportunity to make a trip from the Gothic up to the Modern in one of the most famous Italian museum...

Born in Mugello around the year 1267, disciple of Cimabue, Giotto represents an important change and innovation in the Italian art, marking the end of Gothic and the opening of the Renaissance.

The monumental character of Arnolfo di Cambio's work has left its mark on the appearance of Florence, signing like Giotto the passage from Gothic to Renaissance in architecture and decorative art.

Giacomo Puccini, born at Lucca on Dec 22nd 1858, was the composer of many famous operas like Tosca, Turandot, Madame Butterfly and La Bohème

Michelangelo Buonarroti, the master of the Renaissance capable to extract life, movement and expression from a piece of marble, was born at Caprese Michelangelo, on March 6th 1475 and died at Rome, on February 18th 1564. It was a long intense life with a wide art career as a sculptor, painter and architect.

Boccaccio was one of the greatest storytellers in Italy and Europe of the 14th century with his most famous work Decameron, which was immediately translated into many languages. Born at Certaldo or Florence in the 1313 and dead at Certaldo in 1375.

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; March 1, 1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art.