My first trip to Florence was to attend the The Florence Academy of Art.
The Academy’s philosophy demands a return to discipline in art, to the direct study of nature and the Old Masters as the foundation for painting.
Their curriculum and teaching method derives from the classical-Realist tradition, rooted in the Renaissance and revived by the major Realist academic ateliers of the 19th century.
It was in the height of summer and there was no air conditioning of course. I lost five kilos in four weeks.
