Sigfrido Bartolini
Sigfrido Bartolini (Pistoia, 21 January 1932 – 24 April 2007) was a painter, engraver and writer, a highly regarded critic and polemicist. At just fifteen he took part in —…
Faces and stories
Aurelio Amendola
Born in Pistoia, over the course of his long career as a photographer Aurelio Amendola developed a particular sensitivity for the world of sculpture, documenting the work of Jacopo della…
Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia on 28 June 1922, in the family home on via Dalmazia. He studied architecture and graduated in Florence before moving to the Centro Sperimentale…
Giovanni Michelucci
Giovanni Michelucci was born in Pistoia on 2 January 1891 and died on the night of 31 December 1990, two days before his hundredth birthday, in the house-studio in Fiesole…
Tiziano Terzani
The journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani was born in Florence. He attended the University of Pisa as a law student and studied at the prestigious Collegio Medico-Giuridico of the Scuola…
Marino Marini
Marino Marini is born on 27th February 1901 in Pistoia. In 1917 he enrolls at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where he attends the course in Drawing and…
Jorio Vivarelli
The son of a stonemason, from childhood he showed an interest in his father's tools. He studied in Pistoia at the Scuola Artigiana and enrolled at the Art Institute of…