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

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

Ludovico Tommasi's evocative drawings on show from 26 June to 31 August 2025 Il Palmerino Cultural Association was pleased to host the opening of the exhibition 'Ludovico Tommasi, Bucolic Epiphanies, between Fiesole and Florence' from Thursday, June 26th to August 31st, at Villa Il Palmerino. This exhibition, curated starting from a body of 44 drawings of Ludovico Tommasi from the personal collection of Alfio Parretti and his wife Fiorenza Angeli, functions as an invitation t

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

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

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 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