DIVA DIGITAL IMAGING AND VISUAL ARTS
DIVA’s eye on Florence is like Brunelleschi’s box invented by the Renaissance architect to capture perspective through light: what’s projected through the pinhole is the innovative vision created with our students in Florence, the cradle of artistic creativity since Renaissance times. Our role in this rich background is to preserve its visionary spirit but not dwell upon it, to work towards a contemporary, innovative future.
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The School
DIVA’s eye on Florence is like Brunelleschi’s box invented by the Renaissance architect to capture perspective through light: what’s projected through the pinhole is the innovative vision created with our students in Florence, the cradle of artistic creativity since Renaissance times. Our role in this rich background is to preserve its visionary spirit but not dwell upon it, to work towards a contemporary, innovative future.
DIVA is an academic institution that offers studies in digital photography, rich multimedia, videomaking, graphic design, and interior design in Florence
DIVA’s philosophy is literally a vision, one that seeks to train students to forge a new light and a new perspective on how digital and visual arts reveal our surroundings.
DIVA’s technological approach explores local and European surroundings as a living, dynamic canvas by breathing new life and mobility into historical and traditional contexts, capturing the contemporary social landscape and creating new scenarios for the images of tomorrow.
DIVA supports sustainable media and design in its didactic methods and practices.
Location
The DIVA facilities are located in the historic Palazzo Doni, just a few steps from the splendid Piazza Santa Croce. During the Renaissance period the Palazzo Doni housed famous works of art: the most significant of these is Michelangelo’s Tondo Doni, now in the Uffizi Gallery. The Great Renaissance painter Raphael lived in the palace while painting the portraits of the proprietor Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi; a marble plaque marking his stay can be found in the archway connecting the courtyard to the street thus sealing his presence and artistic spirit within the walls of the present-day institution. The students therefore operate and cultivate their experiences in a suggestive and pervasive frame of influence dating back to an illustrious past.
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DIVA Firenze Palazzo Doni, via Magliabechi 1, Firenze : Telephone: 39.055.244.664 : Fax: 39.055.226.44.69 : Office hours: Monday – Thursday from 08.30 to 17.30 (GMT + 1)
