Pressure is building for the return of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous portrait, the Mona Lisa, to the city of Florence from the Louvre Museum in Paris. A campaign launched by the National Committee for Historical, Cultural and Environmental Heritage together with the Province of Florence has garnered 150,000 signatories petitioning for the return of the painting in 2013.
Category: Arts
Strozzina, Bacon and the existential condition
From 5 October 2012 to 27 January 2013 (opening: Thursday 4 October) is schedulad at Strozzina (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy) the Francis Bacon’s exhibition. Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art will be presenting work by contemporary artists who exam today’s existential state of societal mind.
The “Gates of Paradise” restored after 27 years
It is returning to public view after a 27-year restoration, the “Gates of Paradise”, the masterpiece by Lorenzo Ghiberti. Made of bronze and gold for the Baptistery of Florence, the name of the “Gate” was given by Michelangelo. Removed to protect it from the Second World War in 1943,it was damaged by the flood of the Arno river in 1966 and replaced with a copy in 1990.
The Holy Bible of Marco Polo exhibited in Tuscany
The bible of Marco Polo has a rich history that expands over 700 years, a fascinating testament to the first evidence of contact between Dante Alighieri’s Europe and Kublai Khan’s China. The ancient Latin manuscript was composed in 1235 and at the end of the XIII century it left for China, remaining there for over four hundred years.
The Fifth Light, exhibition by Vlastimil Kosvanec
The Fifth Light – exhibition by Vlastimil Kosvanec The exhibition, organized thanks to the Province of Florence and presented by Museum Martinengo Villagana, Villachiara-Brescia, is produced in an Italian city for the first time. The exhibition project counts the presence of 36 works of the Boehmian artist Vlastimil Košvanec (Prague, 1887-1961) divided into five “rooms” of Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence.
The museums of the city of Florence open to families
The Museums of the city of Florence still open to families. Adults and kids, led by experts, will be accompanied to the treasures of art and history through unexpected interpretations: you can visit the valuable collection of the Bargello museum with a course on the history of music, or to approach the world of fashion with the beautiful shoes that will be made available to the Costume Gallery.
A media tablet to discover the Brancacci Chapel
A media tablet to discover the secrets of the Brancacci Chapel frescoes and the cycle of stories of St. Peter of Masolino and Masaccio: this is the “news” already tested successfully in the museum of Palazzo Vecchio, and now, thanks to a resolution proposed by Sergio Givone councilor for culture, is extended to the museum housed in the Carmine.
Torre d’Arnolfo, 22,000 visitors in the first month
It’s a boom of visitors in the Tower of Arnolfo in Palazzo Vecchio: over 22 thousand people in a little more than a month. The tower, 95 meters high, was open to the public for the first time since June 24, Midsummer Day, and will remain open until the entire month of September.
Looking for a “new” Mona Lisa in Florence
A team led by art historian Silvano Vincenti, head of the National Committee for the Enhancement of Historical, Cultural and Environmental Heritage, may have discovered a tomb in a former convent that could contain the skeleton of Lisa Gherardini, thought to be the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Uffizi Gallery, the gleam of gold
This year, the rooms on the main floor of the Galleria degli Uffizi will host an important exhibition that intends to reconstruct the panorama of Florentine art in the wonderful and crucial period that extended roughly from 1375 to 1440.