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Embark on a grand tour of sunny Tuscany and travel back in time to meet lesser known but extremely fascinating individuals through the exhibition ‘From Fattori to the Novecento. Unedited works from the collections of Roster, Del Greco and Olschki’ on view April 1-November 4 at Villa Bardini. Curated by Francesca Dini and Alessandra Rapisardi, the exhibition joins together the antique collections and gathers over one hundred paintings never before seen.
The original nucleus is built upon the friendship between macchiaiolian founder Giovanni Fattori and Florentine nobleman and scientist Giovanni del Greco (1841-1918).By way of Emma del Greco, Giovanni’s daughter, part of the collection has been donated to the family of Alessandro Roster (1865-1919), son-in-law and collegue of Greco. A family of innovators, doctors, scientists, engineers and architects, active in Florence since 1790. Giacomo Roster, Alessandro’s father, is the creator of the tepidarium of the garden of horticulture, and his cousin is scientist Giorgio Roster, whose research is preserved and archived in collections at Florence’s Museo di Storia Naturale, Museo Galileo, Museo Alinari, the Laboratorio di Fotografia dell’Istituto Statale d’Arte and at the Island of Elba, where one can still visit his villa and garden and where a street carries his name.
Alessandro, doctor and gynecologist and passionate about bicycles (he even composed a manual) is the man responsible for caring for the collection as we know it today. A collection rich in works in the macchiaiolian vein by artists like: Fattori, Telemaco Signorini, Giuseppe Abbati, Odoardo Borrani, Eugenio Cecconi, Vito D’Ancona, Luigi Gioli, Ruggero Panerai, Oscar Ghiglia, Ulvi Liegi, Llewelyn Lloyd and others, telling the story of a very crucial time for Tuscan collections at the turn of the 20th century.
Generations to come (Rapisardi e Olschki) contributed to the nucleus of the post-macchiaiolian artists with a particular tendency for Lloyd, with whom were established strong familial bonds during his stay at Elba. In addition to the paintings on view are also 60 unedited photographs, taken from the collection of the families. These reveal moments of intimacy, joy and carefree leisure while at the same time admiring the works of Lloyd. Images that are grouped by theme: nature, landscape and the female body.
Thus Marcella Olschki is a testimony to the strong bond between art and life, as depicted in the works of Lloyd: “each of his paintings (…) is so full of emotion that it has the power to bring me back in time to a time when everything was pure and untainted, when even a little girl like I was at the time, could feel the intense and almost painful emotion that beauty can give off. Those ships suspended somewhere between sea and sky, silenced in a world made of silence, and voices that belonged to people and animals, or the sounds of thunderstorms, a nature blessed by God, reflected in the transparent waters whose depths held no secrets from us, and there we would throw nets and bait (…). What a blessing it was that he was able to live and paint in such harmony, such emotion to be able to immortalize that period in our lives…”.
The exhibition is divided into five sections: Tuscan painters before la “macchia” (a collection of rare landscapes and cityscapes of Florence painted by Burci, Giovanni Signorini, Borbottoni and Moricci), Fattori and the Macchiaiolians (concerning the four paintins commissioned by Del Greco, on view for the first time), A contribution to Giovanni Mochi (numerous South American works by a mysterious artist, friend of the collective and a regular at the Caffè Michelangelo, emigrated to Chile and brought with him the principles of Tuscan realist painting, becoming an active proponent of the movement), Painters of the late “Macchia” period, (dedicated to the works by Cecconi, Panerai, Ciani and Luigi Gioli), and Lloyd Ulvi Liegi and the Novecento, (rich in splendid paintings by Lloyd,Ghiglia and Ulvi Liegi).
In addition to offering guided tours and promoting roundtable conferences, the Museo Galileo di Firenze (with the partnership of the Biblioteca Comunale Foresiana di Portoferraio, Archivio fotografico Fratelli Alinari, Liceo Artistico Statale di Porta Romana and Sesto Fiorentino, Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze) has published an online digital library dedicated to Giorgio Roster (1843-1927), Florentine scientist and photographer. It is a virtual reconstruction full of works in print, manuscripts and photographs preserved in several institutions in Tuscany. (www.museogalileo.it)
Firenze, Villa Bardini
Hours: 10.00-19.00 (every day from April 14-22, with exception of April 16)
Telephone: 055 20066206
E-mail: mg.geri@bardinipeyron.it http://www.bardinipeyron.it
The original nucleus is built upon the friendship between macchiaiolian founder Giovanni Fattori and Florentine nobleman and scientist Giovanni del Greco (1841-1918).By way of Emma del Greco, Giovanni’s daughter, part of the collection has been donated to the family of Alessandro Roster (1865-1919), son-in-law and collegue of Greco. A family of innovators, doctors, scientists, engineers and architects, active in Florence since 1790. Giacomo Roster, Alessandro’s father, is the creator of the tepidarium of the garden of horticulture, and his cousin is scientist Giorgio Roster, whose research is preserved and archived in collections at Florence’s Museo di Storia Naturale, Museo Galileo, Museo Alinari, the Laboratorio di Fotografia dell’Istituto Statale d’Arte and at the Island of Elba, where one can still visit his villa and garden and where a street carries his name.
Alessandro, doctor and gynecologist and passionate about bicycles (he even composed a manual) is the man responsible for caring for the collection as we know it today. A collection rich in works in the macchiaiolian vein by artists like: Fattori, Telemaco Signorini, Giuseppe Abbati, Odoardo Borrani, Eugenio Cecconi, Vito D’Ancona, Luigi Gioli, Ruggero Panerai, Oscar Ghiglia, Ulvi Liegi, Llewelyn Lloyd and others, telling the story of a very crucial time for Tuscan collections at the turn of the 20th century.
Generations to come (Rapisardi e Olschki) contributed to the nucleus of the post-macchiaiolian artists with a particular tendency for Lloyd, with whom were established strong familial bonds during his stay at Elba. In addition to the paintings on view are also 60 unedited photographs, taken from the collection of the families. These reveal moments of intimacy, joy and carefree leisure while at the same time admiring the works of Lloyd. Images that are grouped by theme: nature, landscape and the female body.
Thus Marcella Olschki is a testimony to the strong bond between art and life, as depicted in the works of Lloyd: “each of his paintings (…) is so full of emotion that it has the power to bring me back in time to a time when everything was pure and untainted, when even a little girl like I was at the time, could feel the intense and almost painful emotion that beauty can give off. Those ships suspended somewhere between sea and sky, silenced in a world made of silence, and voices that belonged to people and animals, or the sounds of thunderstorms, a nature blessed by God, reflected in the transparent waters whose depths held no secrets from us, and there we would throw nets and bait (…). What a blessing it was that he was able to live and paint in such harmony, such emotion to be able to immortalize that period in our lives…”.
The exhibition is divided into five sections: Tuscan painters before la “macchia” (a collection of rare landscapes and cityscapes of Florence painted by Burci, Giovanni Signorini, Borbottoni and Moricci), Fattori and the Macchiaiolians (concerning the four paintins commissioned by Del Greco, on view for the first time), A contribution to Giovanni Mochi (numerous South American works by a mysterious artist, friend of the collective and a regular at the Caffè Michelangelo, emigrated to Chile and brought with him the principles of Tuscan realist painting, becoming an active proponent of the movement), Painters of the late “Macchia” period, (dedicated to the works by Cecconi, Panerai, Ciani and Luigi Gioli), and Lloyd Ulvi Liegi and the Novecento, (rich in splendid paintings by Lloyd,Ghiglia and Ulvi Liegi).
In addition to offering guided tours and promoting roundtable conferences, the Museo Galileo di Firenze (with the partnership of the Biblioteca Comunale Foresiana di Portoferraio, Archivio fotografico Fratelli Alinari, Liceo Artistico Statale di Porta Romana and Sesto Fiorentino, Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze) has published an online digital library dedicated to Giorgio Roster (1843-1927), Florentine scientist and photographer. It is a virtual reconstruction full of works in print, manuscripts and photographs preserved in several institutions in Tuscany. (www.museogalileo.it)
Firenze, Villa Bardini
Hours: 10.00-19.00 (every day from April 14-22, with exception of April 16)
Telephone: 055 20066206
E-mail: mg.geri@bardinipeyron.it http://www.bardinipeyron.it
