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DOCUMENT CENTER
Designs, sketches, and more of the most intimate works of Italy's greatest artists, from Fra Angelico to Leonardo da Vinci, are showcased this year. Even the fantastic fountains that Bartolomeo Ammannati made for Duke Cosimo I and the sculptures of Lorenzo Bartolini, the best-loved portraitist of the 1800s. In 2011, Florence and Tuscany will host some of the best and most innovative exhibitions in Italy. From artistic graphic works to the fabulous treasures of the Kremlin, the sixth edition of the Un Anno di Arte initiative, promises to have something for everyone. This edition also pays tribute to the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy with two retrospectives at Palazzo Pitti.
Dedicated to the applied arts, or the 'applied arts in hard stone', is the exhibition, From the splendours of the court to the luxury of the Bourgeois: The Opificio delle pietre dure in United Italy (Dagli Splendori di Corte al Lusso Borghese-l'Opificio delle pietre dure nell'Italia Unita). to be hosted at the Galleria D'arte moderna di Palazzo Pitti. Opening on May 17, the show is being held on occasion of the 150th anniversary celebrations for the Unity of Italy. The exhibit displays large and small masterworks in stone for the Bourgeois and chronicles the history of the Opificio at the time of Italian unity.
There is more art in store: from May 11, at the Bargello Museum, art buffs can admire the sculptures and fountains of Bartolomeo Ammannati. The monographic exhibition is dedicated to sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati, on occasion of the 5th centenary of the birth of this great artist. The Bargello owns most of Ammannati's remaining statuary.
From May 31, the Galleria dell' Accademia, the works of 19th century Tuscan sculptor, Lorenzo Bartolini, probe the eternal themes of ideal beauty and the inspiration of Nature. Florence's Academia Gallery will inaugurate a new monographic show in May 2011 dedicated to Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850), the artist whose works plays a central role in the development of sculpture in the 1800s in Italy, Europe and the United States. The exhibition, which draws inspiration from the gallery's extraordinary chalk models on display in the Giposteca, will illustrate the excellence with which Bartolini worked. It will also shed light on his many artistic activities which probed the 19th century themes of sentiment, memory, ethic and civil values.
2011 is also the year that honours the cultural link between Italy and Russia. On occasion of this, the Museo degli Argenti in Palazzo Pitti inaugurates on May 27 a show entitled, the Treasures of the Kremlin (Tesoro del Cremlino), featuring the large collection of Russia's oldest museum that gathers royal treasures, objects from the courts, ceremonial items and things linked to Russia's greatest Czars. Contemporarily, the Florentine Museums will send a collection of the Treasures of the Medici on May 29.
From June 14, the Uffizi inaugurates the show Vasari, the Uffizi, and the Duke (Vasari, gli Uffizi, il Duca), a retrospective on on the 5th centenary of the birth of Giorgio Vasari and his role in the heloing establish the Uffizi with Duke Cosimo I de Medici. From October 11, Palazzo Pitti will host a show on the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy, called La Bella Italia: Art, Identity of Italy's capital cities ( La bella italia. Arte, identita' delle città capitali). Through 350 works from museums across Italy and the world, the show chronicles the history of Italy's different identities that make up the country today.
For information on the above-mentioned shows, see:
http://www.unannoadarte.it
Other shows that are currently running in Florence are:
Palazzo Strozzi starts spring this year with a veritable crowd-puller focusing on the earlier of renowned artists like Picasso, Mirò, and Dalì. The show, Picasso, Mirò, and Dalì: Angry Young Men, (Picasso, Mirò, Dalì. Giovani e arrabbiati) runs from March 12 to July 17, 2011 at Palazzo Strozzi. It features over 60 works from these young Spanish artists' early years. Always in Palazzo Strozzi, the Strozzina Centre of Contemporary Culture will host Virtual Realities, a show highlighting the works of a group of international artists that reflect on the relationship between man and the internet.
Other shows that are currently running in outside of Florence and in Tuscany:
PRATO
“Prato, precious echoes - Donatello, Lippi and the sacred masterpiece” is the title of the exhibit, which runs from April 15 to September 15, at the Museums of the Opera del Duomo and the Museum of Mural Paintings in Prato. The exhibition presents recently restored works of religious art that belong to the artistic heritage of Prato. At the Museum of Mural Paintings, an exhibition displaying a massive altarpiece executed by Mariotto di Nardo (1424) for the Serristori Chapel in San Francesco, in Figline Valdarno, will be on display. The precious crucifix painted by Filippino Lippi of Prato, recently purchased by the city of Prato, is also on display. Completing the exhibition are the 20 rare paintings on silk banners, attributed to Gregorio Pagani, the painter and pupil of Santi di Tito.
Until August 7, 2011 the Luigi Pecci Centre of Contemporary Art is holding the exhibition, "LIVE! Art encounters Rock". Curated by Luca Beatrice and Marco Bazzini, the show reveals how art history has influenced the history of rock music and chronicles the evolution of worlds in the past 40 years.
LUCCA
The sculptures of Tony Cragg will be exhibited all summer (until September 10) in Lucca at the church of San Cristofero (both inside and out), and in two piazzas in town. Cragg is one of the most important contemporary artists today and has had his works shown in the Louvre. The show, called Tony Cragg, "IT IS, IT ISN'T", concentrates on Cragg’s fascination for accumulation and stratification through a rigorous selection of important sculptures, including some from the “Early Forms” and “Rational Beings” series. In a show that takes place both indoors and out in Lucca, these sculptures have the opportunity to shine and show their magic in an ancient city that is itself a stratification of history, cultural life and material significance.
SERAVEZZA (LUCCA)
In honor of the centenary of the birth of Renato Guttuso (born December 26, 1911 in Bagheria; died January 18, 1987 in Rome), Versilia is honoring the painter with an exhibit entitled “Guttuso e gli amici di Corrente” (Guttuso and his “Corrente” Friends) until September 11, 2011 in the Palazzo Mediceo in Serravezza (province of Lucca), organized by the Terre Medicee Foundation and the City of Seravzza. The exhibit features nearly 70 pieces—all of which come exclusively from private collections, and include paintings and graphic works some of which are displayed for the first time in years and are of considerable interest to critics and the public.
MAREMMA
One hundred color xylographs by Dalì depicting scenes from the Divine Comedy will be on display as part of a large traveling show, “Dalì Obsession. Passion, rebellion and reasoned madness” on until October 30 in three different museums in the Maremma. The exhibition is being held until August 21 at the Pinacoteca Civica in Follonica, then from August 26 to September 18 at the Villa Sforzesca in Castell’Azzara, and from September 25 to October 30 at the Fortezza Spagnola in Porto Santo Stefano. The show, curated by Maurizio Vanni, gives a new stylistic and cultural interpretation of Dalì through the 100 panels featuring illustrations from Dante’s Comedy.
Dedicated to the applied arts, or the 'applied arts in hard stone', is the exhibition, From the splendours of the court to the luxury of the Bourgeois: The Opificio delle pietre dure in United Italy (Dagli Splendori di Corte al Lusso Borghese-l'Opificio delle pietre dure nell'Italia Unita). to be hosted at the Galleria D'arte moderna di Palazzo Pitti. Opening on May 17, the show is being held on occasion of the 150th anniversary celebrations for the Unity of Italy. The exhibit displays large and small masterworks in stone for the Bourgeois and chronicles the history of the Opificio at the time of Italian unity.
There is more art in store: from May 11, at the Bargello Museum, art buffs can admire the sculptures and fountains of Bartolomeo Ammannati. The monographic exhibition is dedicated to sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati, on occasion of the 5th centenary of the birth of this great artist. The Bargello owns most of Ammannati's remaining statuary.
From May 31, the Galleria dell' Accademia, the works of 19th century Tuscan sculptor, Lorenzo Bartolini, probe the eternal themes of ideal beauty and the inspiration of Nature. Florence's Academia Gallery will inaugurate a new monographic show in May 2011 dedicated to Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850), the artist whose works plays a central role in the development of sculpture in the 1800s in Italy, Europe and the United States. The exhibition, which draws inspiration from the gallery's extraordinary chalk models on display in the Giposteca, will illustrate the excellence with which Bartolini worked. It will also shed light on his many artistic activities which probed the 19th century themes of sentiment, memory, ethic and civil values.
2011 is also the year that honours the cultural link between Italy and Russia. On occasion of this, the Museo degli Argenti in Palazzo Pitti inaugurates on May 27 a show entitled, the Treasures of the Kremlin (Tesoro del Cremlino), featuring the large collection of Russia's oldest museum that gathers royal treasures, objects from the courts, ceremonial items and things linked to Russia's greatest Czars. Contemporarily, the Florentine Museums will send a collection of the Treasures of the Medici on May 29.
From June 14, the Uffizi inaugurates the show Vasari, the Uffizi, and the Duke (Vasari, gli Uffizi, il Duca), a retrospective on on the 5th centenary of the birth of Giorgio Vasari and his role in the heloing establish the Uffizi with Duke Cosimo I de Medici. From October 11, Palazzo Pitti will host a show on the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy, called La Bella Italia: Art, Identity of Italy's capital cities ( La bella italia. Arte, identita' delle città capitali). Through 350 works from museums across Italy and the world, the show chronicles the history of Italy's different identities that make up the country today.
For information on the above-mentioned shows, see:
http://www.unannoadarte.it
Other shows that are currently running in Florence are:
Palazzo Strozzi starts spring this year with a veritable crowd-puller focusing on the earlier of renowned artists like Picasso, Mirò, and Dalì. The show, Picasso, Mirò, and Dalì: Angry Young Men, (Picasso, Mirò, Dalì. Giovani e arrabbiati) runs from March 12 to July 17, 2011 at Palazzo Strozzi. It features over 60 works from these young Spanish artists' early years. Always in Palazzo Strozzi, the Strozzina Centre of Contemporary Culture will host Virtual Realities, a show highlighting the works of a group of international artists that reflect on the relationship between man and the internet.
Other shows that are currently running in outside of Florence and in Tuscany:
PRATO
“Prato, precious echoes - Donatello, Lippi and the sacred masterpiece” is the title of the exhibit, which runs from April 15 to September 15, at the Museums of the Opera del Duomo and the Museum of Mural Paintings in Prato. The exhibition presents recently restored works of religious art that belong to the artistic heritage of Prato. At the Museum of Mural Paintings, an exhibition displaying a massive altarpiece executed by Mariotto di Nardo (1424) for the Serristori Chapel in San Francesco, in Figline Valdarno, will be on display. The precious crucifix painted by Filippino Lippi of Prato, recently purchased by the city of Prato, is also on display. Completing the exhibition are the 20 rare paintings on silk banners, attributed to Gregorio Pagani, the painter and pupil of Santi di Tito.
Until August 7, 2011 the Luigi Pecci Centre of Contemporary Art is holding the exhibition, "LIVE! Art encounters Rock". Curated by Luca Beatrice and Marco Bazzini, the show reveals how art history has influenced the history of rock music and chronicles the evolution of worlds in the past 40 years.
LUCCA
The sculptures of Tony Cragg will be exhibited all summer (until September 10) in Lucca at the church of San Cristofero (both inside and out), and in two piazzas in town. Cragg is one of the most important contemporary artists today and has had his works shown in the Louvre. The show, called Tony Cragg, "IT IS, IT ISN'T", concentrates on Cragg’s fascination for accumulation and stratification through a rigorous selection of important sculptures, including some from the “Early Forms” and “Rational Beings” series. In a show that takes place both indoors and out in Lucca, these sculptures have the opportunity to shine and show their magic in an ancient city that is itself a stratification of history, cultural life and material significance.
SERAVEZZA (LUCCA)
In honor of the centenary of the birth of Renato Guttuso (born December 26, 1911 in Bagheria; died January 18, 1987 in Rome), Versilia is honoring the painter with an exhibit entitled “Guttuso e gli amici di Corrente” (Guttuso and his “Corrente” Friends) until September 11, 2011 in the Palazzo Mediceo in Serravezza (province of Lucca), organized by the Terre Medicee Foundation and the City of Seravzza. The exhibit features nearly 70 pieces—all of which come exclusively from private collections, and include paintings and graphic works some of which are displayed for the first time in years and are of considerable interest to critics and the public.
MAREMMA
One hundred color xylographs by Dalì depicting scenes from the Divine Comedy will be on display as part of a large traveling show, “Dalì Obsession. Passion, rebellion and reasoned madness” on until October 30 in three different museums in the Maremma. The exhibition is being held until August 21 at the Pinacoteca Civica in Follonica, then from August 26 to September 18 at the Villa Sforzesca in Castell’Azzara, and from September 25 to October 30 at the Fortezza Spagnola in Porto Santo Stefano. The show, curated by Maurizio Vanni, gives a new stylistic and cultural interpretation of Dalì through the 100 panels featuring illustrations from Dante’s Comedy.
