Culture
- Raphael, an exhibition in Tokyo “Raphael”, a name… and a title. “Raphael”, with no need for any further embellishment, is the name of an exhibition due to open in the rooms of Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art on 2 March and to run for three months thereafter.
- Florence welcomes the masterpieces from Ferrara A new exhibition, hosted in two prestigious museum premises of the Oltrarno in Florence, will display an extensive selection from the museum of the Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art of Ferrara.
- An idea of beauty in Florence An Idea of Beauty, on view at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS) at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, sets out to explore the work of eight contemporary international artists and will encourage visitors to reconsider the concept of beauty and to question not only the ‘need’ for it but also its function, value and purpose.
- Uffizi fresco finally fixed A piece of a 16th-century fresco that fell from the ceiling of a corridor in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery on February 6 has been put back, Florentine museums chief Cristina Acidini said Wednesday. ”The restoration achieved the expected results and the fresco is nicely back together,” she said.
- Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici in remembrance 18 February To honour Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici the historic parade of the “Florentine Republic” will start at 10.40 am at the “Palagio di Parte Guelfa”, then continue on the central streets accompanying the municipal authorities to the Medici Chapels where they pay a floral tribute to the tomb of the Elettrice Palatina.
- Holy Sepulchre by Leon Battista Alberti to reopen After restoration work, the Renaissance-era Rucellai Chapel with its tiny architectural model of the Temple of the Holy Sepulchre by Leon Battista Alberti will reopen to the public on Saturday.
- Follow the tracks of Cellini in the Tuscan countryside Benvenuto Cellini (1500 – 1571), sculptor of the Perseus in the Loggia degli Uffizi in Florence and of the famous salt-cellar (known as Saliera) made for Francis I, speaks of the home and farm purchased in Vicchio in his autobiographical memoirs.
- Medicinal pills found on ancient Roman shipwreck Pill-shaped disks found in an ancient Roman shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany were used to create medicinal eye-drops, researchers at the University of Pisa say. The research, led by Erika Ribechini at the University of Pisa, will be published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Michelangelo design copied from Leonardo An art scholar suggests Michelangelo copied fellow artist Leonardo da Vinci in the design of a great gilded copper ball once placed atop Florence’s basilica of San Lorenzo. Vincenzo Vaccaro, an official with the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage of Florence, made the claim last week y in the Medici Chapels.
- Florence prepares Michelangelo anniversary Plans were presented in Florence on Tuesday to mark the 450th anniversaries of the death of Michelangelo and and the founding of the Accademia delle Belle Arti that houses his David sculpture. David by the Italian artist Michelangelo is the masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504.
- Michelangelo’s Holy Family moved to new home Michelangelo’s The Holy Family, the famous round painting that resides in the Uffizi Gallery, has found a new home in the Florence institution. The work, which has since 1952 lived in Room 25 on the second floor of the world-famous art gallery, is now the centerpiece of a new hall dedicated to Michelangelo.
- The Medici Chapels and Michelangelo’s “crown” The original “crown” of the lantern which Pope Leo X commissioned Michelangelo to design and which sat atop the dome of the New Sacristy in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence until 2002, will be on display again as of today, in the crypt of the Medici Chapels.
- Florence, the springtime of the Renaissance The Springtime of the Renaissance. Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400-1460 will take held at Palazzo Strozzi, 23 March-18 August 2013 and at Musée du Louvre, 23 September 2013-6 January 2014.
- Love victorious and other stories The exhibition is a follow-up to the “Restauri in Villa” (restorations in the Villa) held last year, presenting the works restored between 2009 and 2010 Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi and the Historical Hunting and Territorial Museum.
- Found scale model of Brunelleschi dome Experts said Friday they believed they had uncovered a scale model of the famous masonry dome of Florence’s S. Maria del Fiore designed by Filippo Brunelleschi during excavations to expand the cathedral museum. The discovery was presented during an official site visit to the Duomo museum.
- Michelangelo sculpture at the Year of Italian culture Year of Italian culture in the U.S. opens in Washington. Italy’s foreign affairs minister will inaugurate The Year of Italian Culture in the United States event Wednesday with the loan of a Michelangelo sculpture to a major American gallery. Giulio Terzi will open the year-long event at Washington’s prestigious National Gallery of Art by unveiling the famous ...
- Raphael drawing, $48 million at auction A drawing by Italian High Renaissance master Raphael has sold for 29.72 million pounds, or $47.9 million – a record for a work on paper in art history – after a dramatic bidding war at a Sotheby’s auction in London. The winning bid came after a 17-minute duel on Wednesday.
- The Incredible Voyage of Enaiathollah Akbari Syracuse University in Florence is pleased to invite you to the lecture: L’incredibile viaggio di Enaiathollah Akbari (“The Incredible Voyage of Enaiathollah Akbari”), Wednesday, November 28 at 6:15pm. Syracuse University, Piazza Savonarola 15, Florence.
- Tribute to Italo Calvino at the Alinari Museum Presented last July at the Rencontres d’Arles 2012, the exhibition is curated by Christophe Berthoud who, inspired by the work of one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, Italo Calvino, has drawn from and used the Alinari Archives as an inexhaustible reservoir of stories and imagery. The exhibit will run until January 6, in ...
- Cimabue to return to Santa Croce A painted crucifix by medieval master Cimabue is ready to be returned to Florence’s Santa Croce Basilica after it was damaged in the Great Flood of 1966. The painted crucifix, executed in 1280, came to heightened fame when muddy waters, which swelled the banks of the Arno and inundated the entire city, swept into the church ...
