From 13 June to 22 September 2026, expect exhibitions, performances, lectures and a community art event on Elena Salvini Pierallini's book art, in venues with a history for women's achievement Throughout her more than sixty-year career, Tuscan artist Elena Salvini Pierallini (1934–2024) produced an eclectic oeuvre largely comprised of embroidery, photography and book art. Monographic and pop-up exhibitions featuring the artist’s work are planned in several Florentine venues

Every stage of a flower's life, on show from 18 February to 12 April 2026 Marieluise Bantel's 'Embrace', courtesy of the artist This exhibition forms part of 'The Garden Project" a partnership between Il Palmerino Cultural Association and the Calliope Arts Foundation, in collaboration with the British Institute of Florence, with special thanks to the generous support of donors Margie MacKinnon and Wayne McArdle. Artist Notes “Bringing the beautiful world of flowers into a de

View unique photography and book art from 12 June to 21 September 2026... Elena Salvini Pierallini – ESP, Mare d’Inverno (The Sea in Winter), 2013 In the 1980s, Florentine photographer and book artist Elena Salvini Pierallini (1934–2024) began creating her Libri in Piedi (books on their feet) series, but her art experience started much earlier, at the age of 17, when she was tasked with crafting designs for her mother’s embroidery business. In the years that followed, ESP b

From September 13, 2025 to December 16, 2025.

From September to December 2025, this programme of autumn events forms part of ‘The Garden Project’, organised by Il Palmerino Cultural Association and Calliope Arts Foundation, in conjunction with the British Institute of Florence, 2024-2027. From 13 September to 16 December 2025 INNER GARDENS: Flavia Arlotta Il Palmerino Cultural Association, Via Il Palmerino 6 Ph. Still Life with a Samovar, Flavia Arlotta, 1981, the Colacicchi Archive This exhibition features the landscape

From 26 June to 31 August 2025, Ludovico Tommasi's evocative drawings are on show at Il Palmerino. Il Palmerino Cultural Association is delighted to host the opening of the exhibition “Ludovico Tommasi: Bucolic Epiphanies from Fiesole to Florence and back,” on view from Thursday, June 26, through August 31 at Villa Il Palmerino. This exhibition, curated around a core collection of 44 drawings by Ludovico Tommasi from the private collection of Alfio Parretti and Fiorenza Angel

From March to May 2025, this programme of springtime events forms part of ‘The Garden Project’, organised by Il Palmerino Cultural Association and Calliope Arts Foundation, in conjunction with the British Institute of Florence, 2024-2027. LECTURE. Elizabeth Von Arnim's Invisible Garden March 11, 2025 Elizabeth Von Arnim, author of The Enchanted April pens a green space of her own. Join us on, for a lecture in Italian at Il Palmerino Cultural Association. Landscapes and ga

From 21 November to 14 December 2024, two landscape artists in dialogue at Il Palmerino Nancy Sandler Bass, 2024, courtesy of the artist Nancy Sandler Bass has been reimagining the garden of Il Palmerino, using her memories and experience painting the landscapes surrounding New York city. Her work balances realism and abstraction, and the recent addition of fabric layering to her paintings adds depth and personal history to her work. Her art captures the essence of Il Palmeri

Open from June 26 to September 26, 2024, this show featuring Lola Costa's still-life works forms part of 'The Garden Project' Lola Costa, Quinces and Rolling Pin, 1974, courtesy of the Il Palmerino family collection and archive Lola Costa was an English ex-pat poet and painter – largely of still-life works, portraiture and landscapes – who lived at Il Palmerino for nearly 70 years, after purchasing the estate following the death of its former owner, British writer Vernon Lee

Inauguration of the exhibition "A face and its looks" by Charles H. Cecil Studios. June 2nd, 2024 from 5.30 pm to 9.00 pm. The Charles H. Cecil Studios portratiure exhibit entitled "Un Volo e i suoi Sguardi" inaugurates this Sunday, June 2nd, at 5:30 PM for an opening celebration which will run until 9 pm. The exhibit will be open from the 2nd until the 16th of June on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 3 PM until 7 PM, or by appointment. Please RSVP with inten

From May to September 2024, this programme of events and publications includes an exhibition, workshops, publication and more... It forms part of ‘The Garden Project’, organised by Il Palmerino Cultural Association and Calliope Arts Foundation, in conjunction with the British Institute of Florence, 2024-2027. The Garden Project 2024 is part of the “Estate Fiorentina”, an initiative proposed within the City of Florence’s Operational Plan. May 2024 'Torn in Two': Grant for yo

Ocotber 7 2023 - January 7 2024. View the artistic legacy of the Angeli family in Florence on via Cavour.

From October 30 to December 15, 2023, ten women photographers from the award-winning Gruppo Fotografico Il Cupolone are on display Photography by Gruppo Fotografico Il Cupolone on display, ph. Calliope Arts Foundation Archive Ten women photographers from the award-winning Florentine cultural association Gruppo Fotografico Il Cupolone capture the essence of the project ‘Palace Women: Oltrarno and Beyond’. Via photo reportage or artistic images, the team is committed to the cre

The ‘Palace Women’ programme 2023, from September to December 2023, rediscovers female forerunners in the monumental Florentine venues in which they lived and worked. Arisians Jane Harman and Ilaria Ceccarelli, ph. Viola Parretti In Florence, numerous notable women working in government, the arts, patronage, literature and philanthropy lived and worked in the Oltrarno and beyond, over the course of centuries. From September to December 2023, lectures, tours, original artisan

From May 30-June 30, 2023, enjoy a unique exhibition curated by Pier-Antonio Gottardo Whether setting out towards a still unknown and distant horizon or simply wandering through nearby or far-off surroundings, whether measured in a few brief pauses or in the long wait for the return home, travelling reveals itself in countless forms and colours. And just as time occasionally seems to linger within the journey, so the traveller's ordinary perception suddenly opens into a more

April 18, 2023 at 6.30 pm. Inauguration of the exhibition.

The Associazione Culturale il Palmerino aps, adhering to the Municipality of Florence's call for bids "Firenze Insolita" for the second year after the great success of 2021, proposes a series of initiatives aimed at narrating the city and its surroundings with special attention to Quartiere 2 and its territory. The programme consists of a series of unusual itineraries inspired by the recent documentary 'Firenze città delle acque' (Florence, city of water), by the three Tuscan

From May 5 to June 5, 2022, nine women artists, from emergent Florentine painter Guenda Nocentini, to Venice Biennale veteran Silvia Fossati, painters, create book art installations, painting and sculpture in response to women artists of the past. Elena Barthel by Gruppo Fotografico Il Cupolone ELENA BARTHEL studied at University of Florence’s Faculty of Architecture, and has taught at the Architectural Association in London and the Auburn University Rural Studio, in Alabama.

From 15 March to 16 June 2022, this exhibition and events series is a dialogue through the centuries that forges a bridge between modern-day art and artisanship, and art by historic women, with emphasis on Florence's Oltrarno district March 15 to April 30 STITCHING ARTISTS INTO HISTORY A call to writers History belongs to those whose stories are told. Writers in Florence and farther afield are invited to send their submissions – stories, poems, reflections and sketches –

From 19 March to 22 April 2022, international artists debut with a series of portraits in conversation' with women artists of the past For the first time, three emergent painters, trained at Charles H. Cecil Studios, an art atelier in the heart of the Oltrarno, will exhibit portraits of friends and neighbours from the district. Their works, were created using the 'sight-size' method which was "first used by Titian and the old Baroque masters and was later adopted by the Briti