To celebrate the 400th Medici grand duke’s anniversary, Florence will host in the next days the following art exhibitions:

- Medici Chapels: show on life and times of  Ferdinando I de’ Medici, powerful third grand duke of Tuscany, (1549-1609), marking 400th anniversary of his death; until November 1.

- Bargello: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Living Marbles; until July 12.

- Palazzo Strozzi: Galileo show marking 400th anniversary of his first observations of the night sky; 250 exhibits including the middle finger from Galileo’s right hand; This 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first use of the telescope for astronomy is part of the justification for choosing this year as the International Year of Astronomy; until August 30.

- Palazzo Pitti: Memories of Antiquity in 20th-Century Art; 130 paintings and sculptures from Etruscan, classical and Renaissance times and 20th-century works by Picasso, Dali, Modigliani, De Chirico, Morandini, Carrà, Marino Marini and many more; until July 12.

- Palazzo Medici: 29 outfits from Court of Lorenzo il Magnifico recreated in paper from contemporary paintings by Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave; until June 14.