Meet for 2 & 1/2 hours each week (your choice, morning or afternoon) for 6 weeks starting slowly with greetings over a tiny cup of Italian coffee or fresh-squeezed o.j. & an introduction to the day's itinerary.

 

Each week, visit a different one of the many treasures this place has to offer: a marvelous piazza & its architecture, a gorgeous Renaissance palazzo or garden, a world-famous sculpture or painting museum, a little-known chapel or a magnificent church, and there discover the hidden stories that make these beautiful creations of the past come to life in a personal way in the present.

 

Engage your questions & dig deeply into what is before your eyes to feel yourself step into time and understand the hands that made these treasures had messages for us and began a conversation that we continue right here, right now.

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Discover that art & art history are not a list of styles, dates, and masters, but the story of how the human beings alive at the time made meaning and emotion 3-dimensional.

 

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Your time travel in your own shoes will be expertly guided by an artist and fine art & art history professor whose extensive, ongoing personal and academic study of art and art history span over 15 years, along with her relationship to art as an art-maker, which all give her a deep knowledge of how making art is core to being human, & relates that  to us as contemporary viewers today.

(click here for her full bio)

 

Making still marble come to life before your eyes &the brushstrokes of masters of centuries ago seem to be drying fresh so that you feel part of their world is her specialty, and you come away with a personal connection and sense of place in this most marvelous of classrooms, Florence itself.

 

course fee 240 euros (entrance fees separate)