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.
Category: Arts
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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreFlorence, 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.
Read moreLove 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.
Read moreFound 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 David-Apollo sculpture by Michelangelo.
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 Florence, Italy.