Every Saturday, from 6 October to 5 January, visitors to the Uffizi Gallery, the Palatine Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, the Museo degli Argenti (The Medici Treasury) and the Medici Villa of Petraia will have the chance to take part in an initiative focusing on a work of art as part of the series of events called: “Close-ups”.
Category: Arts
Il crocifisso del maestro di Figline was restored
Many flock from all over the world to visit the Basilica in Santa Croce to admire both the church itself, and the artwork inside. The famous “Il Cristo Crocifissio del Maestro di Figline” has finally returned to the church, after a long restoration project that began in 2009. The restoration could not have been a success without the help of the Friends of Florence Organization.
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Florens 2012, identity as an added value
During ‘Cultural and Environmental Heritage Week’, Florens 2012 (November 3 to 11) will be focusing on the theme: ‘From the Grand Tour to the Global Tour’, brainchild of the Board of Cultural Directors, which brings together renowned professors from the Universities of Florence, Turin and ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome, who are coordinating the event’s research activities.
Francis Bacon and the other exhibits in Italy
The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy’s art exhibitions. In Florence at Palazzo Strozzi: Francis Bacon, including three unfinished works never seen in Italy; until January 27. At Galleria dell’Accademia: Art Returns Art; contemporary masters including Bacon, Klein, Burri, Kounellis, Picasso and Warhol; until November 4.
Pieroni, painter and architect of Medici
The project La Città degli Uffizi has as inspiration the showing artists of the famous gallery in their original places. At Impruneta there is an exhibition dedicated to its illustrious citizen Alessandro Pieroni, painter and architect of the court of the Medici and with him on display are the painters who were at his side in a grotesque decoration of the loggia of the Uffizi: Alessandro Allori, Giovanni Bizzelli, Giovanmaria Butteri, Ludovico Buti and Cigoli.
From Giovanni Fattori to the 20th century
The exhibit is dedicated to collecting. The pieces of art exposed derives from Roster, Del Greco, Olschki collections: more than 100 unpublished works, but also photos-about sixty- never seen before. The original core of this collection arises from the friendship between Giovanni Fattori, the first Macchiaolo, with the Florentine gentleman, doctor, scientist and garibaldino Giovanni del Greco.
European cultural heritage days in Tuscany
Every year in September, the 50 signatory States to the European Cultural Convention take part in the European Heritage Days – a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission, putting new cultural assets on view and opening up historical buildings normally closed to the public.
Michelangelo’s show travels to Virginia
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg (Virginia, USA) will held the exhibition “Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane Masterpiece Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti.” The exhibition, which opens at the Muscarelle on Feb. 9 and then travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in April.
The Twentieth Century at Santa Caterina
24 works of art made by the masters of the Twentieth Century are on display in the fourteenth-century Oratory of Santa Caterina a Rimezzano, in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli. This unprecedented match is named Twentieth Century. Tensions and figure. The exhibition was inaugurated on the 16th of September and will finish at the end of October.
The springtime of the Renaissance in Florence
The Springtime of the Renaissance will be held at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (23 March-18 August 2013), then at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The exhibition proposes to illustrate the origin of what is still known today as the “miracle” of the Renaissance in Florence, doing so principally through masterpieces of sculpture, the branch of figurative art in which that new season first saw the light of day.