FLORENCE, ITALY – Baccio Bandinelli, Sculptor and maestro (1493 – 1560) is the new exhibition at the Bargello National Museum in Florence Italy from April 9, 2014 to July 13, 2014.
The exhibition will present all of his works of sculpture and painting that can be moved, the drawings and prints he devised, small works in bronze, medals and a rare wax model from Montpellier. Masterpieces like the Bacchus from Palazzo Pitti, his works held in the Bargello, and the marble reliefs of the choir in the Cathedral will be joined by the portrait-busts of Cosimo I and the magnificent Mercury, an early work today in the Louvre.
Paintings on show include Leda and the Swan (from Paris), the only certainly autographed painting by Bandinelli and never before shown at an exhibition, and the famous Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Also on display are the reliefs (in marble, stucco and bronze, from various foreign museums) definitively attributed to him or that derive directly from his originals, along with preparatory drawings.
Given the abundance of material, the exhibition will also expand to part of the Michelangelo Room, in addition to the two rooms the Bargello generally devotes to temporary shows.
For the first time, a monographic show will be dedicated to this “universal artificer” Baccio Bandinelli who was the “Maestro” of an entire generation of artists and who with Michelangelo, Raphael, Vasari and Cellini, left us one of the most extensive collections of papers by sixteenth-century artificers.
Promoters: Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici della Toscana, Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Firenze Musei, Amici del Bargello, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.
Curated by Detlef Heikamp and Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi. Ticket prices Full Price: € 7,00, Reduced: € 3,50.
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