An American In Florence
To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian nautical explorer generally believed to the man from whom the Americas derived their name, the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence is holding an exhibition of American Impressionist painters designed to celebrate the strong ties linking the Old World to the New.
The exhibition, which opens on 03 March until 15 July 2012, explores the American impressionists’ relationship with Italy, and with Florence in particular. In the decades spanning the close of the 19th and dawn of the 20th centuries there was a marked upswing in the number of American artists travelling to Europe, and Italy was an inescapable pole of attraction for most of them.
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