Saturday, November 21th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age, a New Yorker Best Book of 2025, is award-winning novelist and historian Ada Palmer’s witty and irreverent challenge to one of history’s most enduring myths: that a dark Middle Ages suddenly gave way to a glorious Renaissance. Through vivid portraits of Renaissance men and women, Palmer reveals a far more complicated, diverse, fragile—and...

Saturday, November 14th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence In November, Paola’s Studiolo will travel to the studio of talented young artist, Emma Hepburn Ferrer, whose work is deeply inspired by the Renaissance while reflecting her own distinctive artistic vision. In Emma’s Tuscan studio, we will talk about how the Italian Renaissance continues to inspire her work, as well as some of the places and works of art she loves most in Florence. Emma is also...

Saturday, October 24th Live on Zoom 10am Los Angeles / 1pm New York / 6pm London / 7pm Florence NB: Live only event – no recording will be made! One of the most celebrated exhibitions of this year in Italy, is “Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector” at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The exhibition celebrates Peggy Guggenheim’s years in the UK and her first gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, which operated in London before WWII, between 1938 and 1939. The exhibition...