An autumn of art in Florence
This autumn, Florence comes alive with a rich programme of artistic culture, from conceptual journeys spanning historical and contemporary art to exhibitions celebrating the life and work of Italy’s greatest Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi, and the internationally acclaimed creations of Florence’s own fashion visionary, Ferdinando Sarmi.
At the heart of Florence, Hotel Bernini Palace offers an elegant base for discovering the city’s rich programme of art, culture and creativity.
Broken
Palazzo Strozzi | 25 September 2026 to 24 January 2027
Palazzo Strozzi presents Broken. The Power of the Fragment, a major exhibition exploring the role of the fragment in sculpture from antiquity to contemporary art.
More than 80 works by artists including Michelangelo, Rodin, Louise Bourgeois and Francesco Vezzoli reveal the fragment not simply as a remnant, but as an autonomous form, carrying memory, history and new possibilities for artistic expression. Spanning eras and cultures, the exhibition considers how what is broken can become a powerful means of transformation and renewal.
Il genio di Sarmi
Museo della Moda e del Costume | 18 june 2026 to 31 december 2026
The Museum of Fashion and Costume, this exhibition celebrates the remarkable career of Ferdinando Sarmi, from his early beginnings in 1950s Florence to his international success in New York during the golden age of fashion.
Focusing on two defining decades, it brings together celebrated garments, period accessories and materials from the Sarmi Collection. A journey through fashion, cinema and society, the exhibition explores the meeting of Italian tailoring tradition with the cosmopolitan glamour of Fifth Avenue, where Sarmi's celebrated clientele included some of the great stars of the 20th century.
Artemisia Gentileschi a Firenze
Museo degli Innocenti | 21 october 2026 to 04 april 2027
At the Museo degli Innocenti, an exhibition dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi explores a defining chapter in the life of one of Italy’s most celebrated Baroque painters.
Between 1613 and 1620, Florence offered Artemisia a new sense of independence and a place within the city’s prestigious cultural milieu, where she became the first woman admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno and developed close connections with the Medici court. Through her works and her dialogue with the leading figures of seventeenth-century Florence, the exhibition traces an important period of artistic maturity, revealing how Artemisia transformed her experiences into a style that was intense, powerful and unmistakably her own.