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The Horne Museum contributes to the 2011 edition of Piccoli Grandi Musei with the “Images and looks” exhibition in Via de’ Benci which contains 29 portraits, self-portraits and figure-studies, all of great value, realized between the 16th and the 19th centuries by famous artists, including Raffaello, Bernini, Tintoretto, Parmigianino, Pietro da Cortona, Albrecht Dürer, Johann Heinrich Füssli, John Constable. Many of these, long since deposited in the Drawings and Prints Laboratory of the Uffizi gallery and only recently restored to the Horne Foundation, have never been exhibited.
Herbert Horne was born in London in 1864. In 1905 he decided to move to Italy where he frequented important literary and artistic circles; a particular interest for Italian Renaissance art was to become his distinctive trait. Publications of his include some important contributions to the history of art on Paolo Uccello, Piero di Cosimo, Gentile da Fabriano, Andrea Del Castagno, and an unsurpassed monography on Sandro Botticelli. After becoming the preferential supplier of artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the National Gallery of London amongst others, he began his own collection and accumulated works of such quantity and quality as to have to buy the building in Via de’Benci to house the collection. Most generously he bequeathed the whole patrimony to the city of Florence upon his death.
Important works include a set of landscapes by Constable, as well as a rare figure of a woman dated about 1810, three works by Raffaello, three studies of heads by Parmigianino, a self-portrait by Bernini, of particular value considering the artist was 14 at the time, Dürer’s portrait of the German philosopher Melanchthon and Füssli’s beautiful portrait of his wife.
Opening times:
Monday – Thursday 9-1 pm; Friday – Sunday 10-5 pm; Wednesday closed
For information:
http://www.stanzedeitesori.it/
Herbert Horne was born in London in 1864. In 1905 he decided to move to Italy where he frequented important literary and artistic circles; a particular interest for Italian Renaissance art was to become his distinctive trait. Publications of his include some important contributions to the history of art on Paolo Uccello, Piero di Cosimo, Gentile da Fabriano, Andrea Del Castagno, and an unsurpassed monography on Sandro Botticelli. After becoming the preferential supplier of artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the National Gallery of London amongst others, he began his own collection and accumulated works of such quantity and quality as to have to buy the building in Via de’Benci to house the collection. Most generously he bequeathed the whole patrimony to the city of Florence upon his death.
Important works include a set of landscapes by Constable, as well as a rare figure of a woman dated about 1810, three works by Raffaello, three studies of heads by Parmigianino, a self-portrait by Bernini, of particular value considering the artist was 14 at the time, Dürer’s portrait of the German philosopher Melanchthon and Füssli’s beautiful portrait of his wife.
Opening times:
Monday – Thursday 9-1 pm; Friday – Sunday 10-5 pm; Wednesday closed
For information:
http://www.stanzedeitesori.it/
