Virtual Exhibitions

Nine years of cultural meetings around architecture, art and books, organized by Luca De Silva and his colleagues from the Architecture Library.

The exhibition illustrates Palazzeschi's lively relationship with twentieth-century art, re-proposing and enriching the exhibition organized by the Humanities Library and the «Aldo Palazzeschi» Study Center in 2023.

On the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's death, it has been created the virtual version of an exhibition set up in 2015.

The illustrated tables, so called Tavole Milani, took the name from their creator, they were used as an aid for his archeology lessons.

Saber, sword and pistol duels to defend honor, clashes which in the decades following the unification of Italy, instead of decreasing, increased in Italy and remained present at least until the twenty years of fascism.

Presentation of the digitization of the volume Architecture toscane, ou palais, maisons et autres édifices de la Toscane.

The Science Library integrates and expands, with the virtual exhibition, the exhibition set up at Botanica on the work of Pier Antonio Micheli.

Texts and images by Renzo Rastrelli offer new ideas for understanding China in the 70s.

The covers of Wendingen magazine reproduced in full, together with archive documents and a rich collection of articles, create a virtual art gallery of the 1920s and 30s.

The sections of the virtual exhibition, thanks to the images and texts of the printed catalogue, reflect the layout of the exhibition which was held at Palazzo Medici Riccardi between 2016 and 2017.

Documents on display, before and after the flood, from the historical archives of the University of Florence and from the historical collections of the Architecture Library.

With the exhibition of some particularly representative specimens, the Library System of the University of Florence offers visibility to its precious documentary heritage.

Sheets representing the design of a "risina" in Pieve di Cadore, drawn and colored by hand by Apollonio Ciotti in around 1870, and used for teaching Forestry Science and Art in the Forestry Institute of Vallombrosa.

Contributions to magazines starting from the 1930s to document some of Pier Luigi Nervi's projects, mostly for stadiums, such as the Florentine stadium, the Flaminio in Rome, the municipal one in Novara and others.

Through the experience of Carlo Alfieri di Sostegno and the testimony of the documents deposited in the Social Sciences Library, the exhibition traces the history of the School.

The exhibition displays a significant number of documents that underline the cultural, political and civil commitment of the Italian scientific community, in a fundamental moment in Italy's history.

A selection of documents owned by the Social Sciences Library to testify the difficulties and tasks of the new State following unification.

The exhibition displays a careful selection of editions taken from the large Darwinian corpus in the possession of the Science Library, evidence that the Florentine scientific community readily welcomed Darwinian theories and contributed to their diffusion.

Expanded edition of the 1988 exhibition The Books of the Studium, the exhibition aims to ideally reunite the history of the book collections of the University of Florence - the ancient Florentine Studio, which ceased and then resurrected in the second half of the nineteenth century with the foundation of the Institute of Higher Studies.