L’Andazzo: the new cycle of Brevissime ETS conferences at the Bardini Museum
From October 2 to December 4, historians, scholars, and writers recount how fashion trends have transformed society over time.
Autumn 2025 in Florence opens with a new and stimulating cultural initiative: Brevissime ETS inaugurates its collaboration with the Florentine Civic Museums by bringing to the Stefano Bardini Museum in Piazza de’ Mozzi a cycle of lectures that will continue through spring 2026.
The chosen title, L’Andazzo, evokes the movement of ideas and tastes across the centuries: a journey exploring the fashions, trends, and styles that have influenced not only art and architecture, but also collecting, social customs, and even cuisine.
A rich and multidisciplinary program
Each 45-minute lecture features art historians, scholars, writers, and experts from different disciplines, offering the public a cross-disciplinary perspective on cultural transformations between past and present.
October 2 – Andrea G. De Marchi, art historian, on the relationship between art and finance from the mid-19th century.
October 9 – Claudio Paolini, Scientific Director of the Longhi Foundation, on the great urban revolution of Florence as Capital.
October 23 – Sofia Gnoli, fashion historian, on style in Italy between the two World Wars.
November 6 – Enrico Colle, Director of the Stibbert Museum, on the vogue of chinoiserie and Oriental influences on the arts between the 17th and 18th centuries.
November 13 – Patricia Lurati, art historian, on Florentine merchants of the 14th century encountering exotic animals and the new forms of imagination that emerged.
November 20 – Luca Scarlini, writer and playwright, on Napoleonic “Egyptomania” and its cultural legacy.
November 27 – Fabrizia Lanza, writer and food scholar, on the changing tastes in Sicily and Europe in the 19th century, influenced by French cuisine.
December 4 – Carlo Sisi, art historian, closing the cycle with a lecture on the fortune of ancient themes in 19th-century painting and sculpture.
Hosted in the evocative setting of the Bardini Museum, the series aims to offer an original key to understanding how taste and fashion have profoundly shaped society, creating unexpected connections between eras, disciplines, and cultural languages.
Stefano Bardini Museum, Piazza de’ Mozzi, Florence
From October 2 to December 4, 2025 – every Thursday, 6:45 to 7:30 p.m.
Admission with advance reservation recommended