Top 10 Art Galleries in Province of Siena, Tuscany

Art Studio di Adelina Quadri, little schop of Val d'Orcia's watercolours in Monticchiello.

In the heart of Tuscany, in San Gimignano, a town witness of the History, Arts and Culture of our country, iSculpture has its rise, the first Contemporary Art Gallery featuring only Italian Sculptors. The art works of 24 artists welcome you in a charming historical setting, to tell you the magnificence of bronze, the alchemy of ceramics, the alabaster's transparence, the versatility of iron, the scent of wood and the marble's elegance.Its first location in San Gimignano is today joined by another exhibition space in Casole d'Elsa (SI).

Galleria Gagliardi is an extremely important cultural reference, among the most complete for the permanent promotion and sale of contemporary art: painting and sculpture. Every work is always subject to a scrupulous selection process, with every piece chosen directly in the studios of the artists with whom we work, constantly encouraging them to perform research, renewing their approach, improving their skills in order to present works of the very highest quality.

Librorcia is an independent bookstore located in the village of Bagno Vignoni, located right next to the square and willed most famous waterway and dreaming of Italy. Always careful to the territory in which he lives, the Librorcia offers its visitors a rich selection of titles that tell the Val d'Orcia and Tuscany, heavens of infinite beauty and lands of artists, writers and poets among the most famous of Italy . Librorcia also to discover the special world of valuable publications, crafts and unobtainable, the essential classics, philosophy, poetry, contemporary fiction, the cookbooks, those dedicated to wine, health, welfare and the cure of the spirit. but because the love of reading is grown from childhood here is a space dedicated to children: books and games for children in a tiny room where you see everything with confidence.

The workshop production is based on artistic ceramics in typical siennese style, and many others conceived by Staccioli's family itself featured by decoration in a range of different shades of blue, green and salmon obtained by particular maxing of colours. Sonia's majolica's achieved their last touch by over glaze firing. Temperature ranges from 930° to 1050° Celsius. All the "Bianco e Nero" articles are totally hand made and completely lead free.

I was born in 1967 in San Gimignano, and here I decided to live and work.Since I was a young boy, the passion for photography has fascinated me, at the beginning because I felt I was immortalizing happy moments. And as I grew up I felt more and more that this hobby could become a serious occupation. As early as 1997 I had the chance to illustrate catalogues and books in collaboration with several national and international magazines (Conde Nast, Rusconi, Mondatori and others).Now he is looking towards a different type of image: a silent landscape where the human person, even though invisible, is always present and leads us towards a melancholic kind of joy.My first book "Viaggio nella Campagna Toscana" ("A Journey through Tuscan Landscapes") was published in 1998 after long and careful work so as to lead the reader on a poetic and aesthetic journey through the beauty of Tuscany. My wife Renata and I then decided to open a photo shop in San Gimignano, the first of its kind to sell colour and black and white photographs taken by me and printed in my own workshop. Our "La Bottega del Sale", the medieval "Salt Shop"in the Piazza Duomo, was inaugurated in April 2000 where we started this beautiful adventure which has brought us such great satisfaction.My journey as a photographer has grown steadily over the years. Initially I specialised in photographing landscapes, architecture and art. Later I tried to catch the soul of a silent landscape where the human being - even if not visibile - is always there conveying a feeling of melancholic joy. The second book of colour shots was published in 2008, with the title "Toscana dell'Anima" ("Tuscany of the Soul"), a volume of photographs selected together with poems of Tuscan authors of every age, from passionate verses from Cecco Angiolieri and Dante Alighieri to calmer and more ironic poets such as Folgore da San Gimignano and Aldo Palazzeschi. In the meantime, I have exhibited, participated in special events, and shown my work at "Rencontres de la Photographie" in Arles (France) in 2008 and 2009.I succeeded in realizing my first volume in black and white after years awaiting and respecting the flow of nature, in order to be able to photograph a landscape not just in its authentic form, but as my eyes would always like to see it. You must not be in a hurry when wishing to reproduce the sensations that flow through you when seeing a beautiful thing, and so "Toscana, occhi nel Silenzio" ("Tuscany, Eyes in the Silence") was published in 2010.

Mamdoh Badran (Porto Said, Egypt, 1945) Is a watercolor painter. He lives and works in San Gimignano, in his art galleries exhibits his paintings of landscapes, ancient villages, glimpses of the Tuscan countryside.