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| October 1, Friday |
| Portraits of Power - People Politics Structures Exhibition |
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Tina Barney, Christoph Brech, Bureau d’études, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Clegg & Guttmann, Nick Danziger, Rineke Dijkstra, Jim Dow, Francesco Jodice, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Trevor Paglen, Martin Parr, Wang Qingsong, Daniela Rossell, Jules Spinatsch, Hiroshi Sugimoto, The Yes Men
The exhibition explores portraiture and the representation of political, economical and social power in the contemporary world through the works of contemporary artists. Portraits of famous political figures, investigations into the lifestyle of the social elite, as well as inquiries into the power structures of international institutions.
The exhibition explores its theme from three main standpoints: it analyses power as an expression of the charisma of those individuals who have become icons or symbols of their age; it probes the power of institutions and social models that either represent themselves or are represented in a critical light; and it investigates the hidden mechanisms of powerful authorities.
Portraits and Power is a project of the CCC Strozzina, with the consultancy of Peter Funnell (National Portrait Gallery, London), Walter Guadagnini ("UniCredit & Art" project) and Roberta Valtorta (Museum of Contemporary Photography, Cinisello Balsamo) coordinated by Franziska Nori (CCCS, Firenze).
Strozzina Contemporary Space in Palazzo Strozzi
Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 am - 8.00 pm Special free entrance: Thursday 6.00 pm - 11.00 pm Monday closed
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| October 2, Saturday |
| Contemporary Art Trip to Pistoia´s Gori Foundation |
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Gori Foundation www.goricoll.it
550 euro a person
The price includes transportation with a luxury car, lunch, entrance to the Foundation and catalog.
For the first time ever, art lovers can now come to Italy and see private and public collections of Contemporary Art. A country known for its extraordinary Renaissance art, it is natural that this world has been mostly overlooked by the tour businesses of Italy. But Italy is in fact a haven of some extraordinary collections of contemporary and modern art, beyond the Biennale of Venice, and so this autumn, Palazzo Tornabuoni is launching a series of Contemporary Art Tours with a knowledgeable Italian Art Curator and Gallerist, Caterina Biagiotti, who has also been following this world from the inside, for over a decade.
The half, full day and two to three day tours will offer private behind the scenes visits to the Contemporary Art collections and studios of Italy. With Caterina Biagiotti at your side, putting the works and collections in context, you will meet or be toured by the museum directors or curators, visit private collections and have an opportunity to meet the movers and shakers of this world.
With all meals, transportation and housing carefully organized, you will have a carefree opportunity to explore and become one of the few to know this hidden world. See the schedule below. For issues of privacy, the list does not include private collections.
For more details contact the Attachè
Pistoia - departing from the Palazzo
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| October 2 - October 3 |
| Arezzo Antique Fair |
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Tuscany´s best known and prestigious antique market is the one held in the streets and piazzas of Arezzo on the first Saturday and Sunday of the month: this year, Arezzo´s antique market celebrates its fortieth anniversary and, thanks to its prestige, attracts a great number of visitors (about 30.000 over the course of the weekend) flocking from all over the country.
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| October 4, Monday |
| Members´ Aperitivo |
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Palazzo Library
7pm Palazzo Tornabuoni
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| October 8 - October 9 |
| Horseback Riding Weekend in Private Family Estates of Tuscany |
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Overnight at the beach. Picnic lunches on the beach or in the forest on the trail.
For more information contact the Attache.
Maremma
All day Saturday and Sunday
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| October 11, Monday |
| Members´ Aperitivo |
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Palazzo Library
7pm Palazzo Tornabuoni
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| October 15 - |
| Lucca Antique Fair |
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LUCCA has a large antiques market (centred around Piazza San Giusto and Piazza Antelminelli) on the third Sunday (and preceding Saturday) of every month. There is also a craft fair, again in and around Piazza San Giusto
Lucca
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| October 15 - October 16 |
| Contemporary Art Trip To Rome for Two Days |
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Maxxi-Museum of Art of XXI century ("Gino de Dominicis: l´immortale"; "Spazio") www.maxxi.beniculturali.it
Macro-Museum of Contemporary Art Rome ("Luca Trevisani: lo spazio è un giardino da coltivare")
Gagosian Gallery ("Franz West: Roman Room") www.macro.roma.museum www.gagosian.com
1500 euro
The price includes train transportations (first class), luxury car with driver in Rome, lunches, dinner, entrance to the museum and catalog. Hotel not included.
For the first time ever, art lovers can now come to Italy and see private and public collections of Contemporary Art. A country known for its extraordinary Renaissance art, it is natural that this world has been mostly overlooked by the tour businesses of Italy. But Italy is in fact a haven of some extraordinary collections of contemporary and modern art, beyond the Biennale of Venice, and so this autumn, Palazzo Tornabuoni is launching a series of Contemporary Art Tours with a knowledgeable Italian Art Curator and Gallerist, Caterina Biagiotti, who has also been following this world from the inside, for over a decade.
The half, full day and two to three day tours will offer private behind the scenes visits to the Contemporary Art collections and studios of Italy. With Caterina Biagiotti at your side, putting the works and collections in context, you will meet or be toured by the museum directors or curators, visit private collections and have an opportunity to meet the movers and shakers of this world.
With all meals, transportation and housing carefully organized, you will have a carefree opportunity to explore and become one of the few to know this hidden world. See the schedule below. For issues of privacy, the list does not include private collections.
For more details contact the Attachè
Rome
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| October 18, Monday |
| Members & Guests Aperitivo |
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All in house guests and members are invited for in informal aperitivo in the library.
Palazzo Tornabuoni Library
6:30-8:00pm
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| October 21 - October 24 |
| Festival della Creativita |
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Casa della Creatività, Chiostro Santa Maria Maggiore
Vicolo di Santa Maria maggiore 1,
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| October 22, Friday |
| Quad Excursion into Tuscan Countryside |
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Spend a rugged day riding over the wild terrains of Tuscany. For more information see the Attache
Tuscany
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| October 24, Sunday |
| Lucca Marathon |
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The marathon will be run on a 42.195 kms path and will be valid as a regional championship of the Sport Veterans´ Marathon.
The maximum duration to finish the marathon was determined by the organizers and it´s 6 hours.
The entry will be possible until the 10th of October.
the days before the Marathon there will also be an Expo Marathon.
Viale delle Mura Urbane, Lucca
www.luccamarathon.it
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| October 25, Monday |
| Sting live in Florence |
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The Symphonicity tour (with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra) will find Sting performing his most celebrated songs re-imagined for symphonic arrangement
Live Nation announced that Sting, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, will extend his world tour to Europe and the UK this autumn. The Symphonicity tour will find Sting performing his most celebrated songs re-imagined for symphonic arrangement. The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra will be conducted by Maestro Steven Mercurio (Pavarotti, Bocelli).
Presented in a variety of settings, the European tour will begin September 3 at Oslo’s Konserthus followed by a September 5 performance at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. On October 5, Sting, accompanied by Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, will perform a special concert in his hometown at The Sage Gateshead. Also announced today are performances at other prestigious venues such as London’s Royal Albert Hall on October 1, Teatro Verdi in Florence on October 25, Teatro Arcimboldi in Milan on November 2, and Santa Cecilia in Rome on November 10. Additionally, September will find the tour making stops in Stockholm, Helsinki, Berlin, Koln and Paris, followed by concerts in Dublin, Nantes, Antwerp, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart throughout October, with additional performances in Turin and Vienna in November.
Drawing from a diverse and illustrious career that has produced numerous multi-platinum albums, a staggering list of number one songs, countless accolades and worldwide record sales of nearly 100 million, Sting’s greatest hits will be reinterpreted with brand new orchestrations arranged by Jorge Calandrelli, David Hartley, Michel Legrand, Rob Mathes, Vince Mendoza, Steven Mercurio, Bill Ross, Robert Sadin, and Nicola Tescari. Selections, created especially for this tour, will include fan-favorites such as “Roxanne,” “Next To You,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” and “Every Breath You Take,” to notable songs from Sting’s enduring solo career – “Englishman in New York,” “Fragile,” “Russians,” “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You,” “Fields of Gold,” and “Desert Rose.”
Sting will also be joined by a quartet comprised of Dominic Miller (Sting’s longtime guitarist), David Cossin (a multi-percussion specialist in new and experimental music and featured member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars), Jo Lawry (vocalist) and Ira Coleman (bassist).
American Express® Cardmembers will have the exclusive opportunity to purchase advance tickets to Sting’s Symphonicity Tour, featuring the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Conducted by Steven Mercurio, presented by Xerox for concerts in Italy, the UK, France, and Spain.
Teatro Verdi
www.sting.com - www.livenation.com
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| October 25, Monday |
| Members´ Aperitivo |
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Palazzo Tornabuoni Library
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| October 28, Thursday |
| Insiders Contemporary Art Tour of Florence |
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EX3- Contemporary Art Center (exhibitions of Francesco Carone and Simons Roberts) www.ex3.it
CCCS- Centre of Contemporary Culture Strozzina (Portraits of Power) www.strozzina.org
550 euro a person
The price includes transportation with a luxury car, lunch, entrance to the Museums and catalog.
For the first time ever, art lovers can now come to Italy and see private and public collections of Contemporary Art. A country known for its extraordinary Renaissance art, it is natural that this world has been mostly overlooked by the tour businesses of Italy. But Italy is in fact a haven of some extraordinary collections of contemporary and modern art, beyond the Biennale of Venice, and so this autumn, Palazzo Tornabuoni is launching a series of Contemporary Art Tours with a knowledgeable Italian Art Curator and Gallerist, Caterina Biagiotti, who has also been following this world from the inside, for over a decade.
The half, full day and two to three day tours will offer private behind the scenes visits to the Contemporary Art collections and studios of Italy. With Caterina Biagiotti at your side, putting the works and collections in context, you will meet or be toured by the museum directors or curators, visit private collections and have an opportunity to meet the movers and shakers of this world.
With all meals, transportation and housing carefully organized, you will have a carefree opportunity to explore and become one of the few to know this hidden world. See the schedule below. For issues of privacy, the list does not include private collections.
Florence - EX3 and Strozzina
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| Insiders Contemporary Art Trip to Prato and Pistoia |
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Pecci (permanet collection; Athos Ongaro-Michael Lin) www.centropecci.it
Gori Fondation www.goricoll.it
550 euro a person
The price includes transportation with a luxury car, lunch, entrance to the Foundation and catalog.
For the first time ever, art lovers can now come to Italy and see private and public collections of Contemporary Art. A country known for its extraordinary Renaissance art, it is natural that this world has been mostly overlooked by the tour businesses of Italy. But Italy is in fact a haven of some extraordinary collections of contemporary and modern art, beyond the Biennale of Venice, and so this autumn, Palazzo Tornabuoni is launching a series of Contemporary Art Tours with a knowledgeable Italian Art Curator and Gallerist, Caterina Biagiotti, who has also been following this world from the inside, for over a decade.
The half, full day and two to three day tours will offer private behind the scenes visits to the Contemporary Art collections and studios of Italy. With Caterina Biagiotti at your side, putting the works and collections in context, you will meet or be toured by the museum directors or curators, visit private collections and have an opportunity to meet the movers and shakers of this world.
With all meals, transportation and housing carefully organized, you will have a carefree opportunity to explore and become one of the few to know this hidden world. See the schedule below. For issues of privacy, the list does not include private collections.
For more details contact the Attachè elucifero@palazzotornabuoni.com.
Prato and Pistoia - From Palazzo Tornabuoni
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| May 30 - December 31 |
| Leonardo Da inci´s machines on display |
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"Le Macchine di Leonardo", the world’s biggest private collection of Leonardo da Vinci´s machines was born following the juvenile passion of Carlo Niccolai.
Particularly skilled craftsmen, the members of the Niccolai family have so far developed 150 different models, based on the Da Vinci codes and on historical documents using the materials of Leonardo’s time: wood, metal, ropes and fabrics.
According to the unwritten rules of Florentine craftsmen, Carlo Niccolai has passed on his passion to his sons and grandsons, who, thanks to their knowledge of new technologies, have enriched the collection with new models and organised more than a hundred exhibitions all over the world in the last ten years.
Professor Carlo Pedretti, Director of the Armand Hammer Centre for Leonardo Studies at the University of California in Los Angeles and of its European division at the University of Urbino, has praised the accuracy in reproducing the models. In the last few years the models have been refined with Professor Pedretti’s support and have rapidly gained international credit.
Leonardo Da Vinci´s machines are displayed at the Galleria Michelangiolo, where the Macchiaioli used to meet, in one of the most famous streets in Florence city centre.
More than 50 models are displayed in four rooms: the largest one is dedicated to civil machines, in the second room flying machines are shown, war machines are to be found in the third and in the fourth the recently developped collection of anatomical models can be admired. Most of the models are real working machines.
A documentary on Leonardo Da Vinci’s life and works is displayed on large screen monitors.
The gallery has an agreement with Caffé Michelangiolo, the restaurant inside the exhibition area.
At the bookshop you will find many publications and gadgets.
Tickets:
Full price: 6 €
Reduced price: 5 € (students with Carta Studente; people aged 6-18 years and 65 years or older with ID)
Groups: 3 € (at least 15 people, leader excluded)
via Cavour, 21
Opening hours: Mon to Sun 9.30 – 19.30.
www.macchinedileonardo.com
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| August 1 - July 1 |
| Antique fair- Ciompi |
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Every working day and last Sunday of the month
055 328 3550
Piazza de´ Ciompi
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| June 7 - November 1 |
| Chamber Painting, Furniture paintings of the Florentine Renaissance |
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see attache for further details
Galleria dell´Accademia
Via Ricasoli, 60
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| June 8 - November 1 |
| The VIrtues of Love in Florence |
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From the 8th of June to the 1st of November 2010 at the Accademia Gallery in Florence, the exhibition "The Virtues of Love, Nuptial Painting in XV century Florence" will take place.
The bedroom was the fulcrum of the Renaissance home: the most intimate and protected place where the wedding was consumed, children were born, and one died. Spalliere/headboards like the so-called Cassone Adimari of the Galleria dell´Accademia, which occasions the exhibition, and the historiated panels of chests are extraordinary testimonies of the Florentine Renaissance home, high fashion, the celebration of festivities, the rituality that accompanied marriage, from engagement to the wife´s entrance into her husband´s house. Moreover, with the stories depicted, "nuptial painting" served the fundamental function of conveying messages of warning and encouragement to a couple to adopt a conduct considered as exemplary. This aspect helps us today to focus in on a mainstay of fifteenth-century Florentine culture: the role of the family and those of the husband and wife. Drawing on classical mythology, the Bible, historical episodes and contemporary literature, all of the facets of love are depicted, along with the ensuing duties: from love triumphant over adverse circumstances (The Marriage of Thetis and Peleus), to the virtues of obedience and abnegation that the woman must pursue (The Legend of Griselda from Boccaccio´s Decameron), to the courage of the heroines Lucretia and Virginia, who choose death as source of redemption. An entire section illustrates the harmful consequences of love as sexual beguilement capable of totally subduing a man´s will. We must not forget, however, that marriage meant first and foremost to give life to new progeny and perpetuate the family. Towards this end, the last section of the exhibition is dedicated to family pride, asserted in stories that recount the foundation of famous families like those of Aeneas and David or that, following the texts of Petrarch, celebrate the Triumphs of Fame, Time and Eternity. These images could also be painted on deschi da parto (birth salvers), which were tondos painted on both sides, offered as ceremonial gifts to women of the upper classes who had just given birth. A particularly famous one is the desco da parto realised on the occasion of the birth of Lorenzo the Magnificent (Triumph of Fame, New York, Metropolitan Museum). Finally, the exhibits feature works by illustrious painters like Botticelli (Story of Virginia Romana, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara), Filippino Lippi (Story of Lucretia, Florence, Galleria Palatina), and Pesellino (Stories of Susanna, Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais), which open an extraordinary view onto the Florentine workshops engaged in the production of these objects that enjoyed their greatest fortune precisely in the fifteenth century. The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Museo Horne of Florence which will present an itinerary valorising a consistent nucleus of painted chests (cassoni) from its collection which come from the original collection that belonged to Herbert Percy Horne, for the occasion joined by several works on exceptional loan from private collectors.
Academia
Tuesday to Sunday, 8,15 – 18,50
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| June 19 - December 19 |
| Special Family Tours of Museo Gallileo and the Zoology Museums |
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GUIDED TOUR: THE GALILEO MUSEUM
The Medici and Lorraine collections of scientific instruments
housed in the Galileo Museum are among the most
important in the world. The visit includes demonstrations
of functioning antique instruments.
July Saturday 24 at 10.30am-12.00am
Sunday 25 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
August Saturday 21 at 10.30am-12.00am
Sunday 22 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
September Saturday 25 at 10.30am-12.00am
Sunday 26 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
October Saturday 23 at 10.30am-12.00am
Sunday 24 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
November Saturday 27 at 10.30am-12.00am
Sunday 28 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
GUIDED TOUR: ZOOLOGY “LA SPECOLA” SECTION
History and Science at the Natural History Museum Section of Zoology “La Specola”
A visit to the Anatomical waxes (Cere anatomiche) and the Astronomical observatory
(“Il Torrino”)
June Saturday 19 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
Sunday 20 at 10.30am-12.00am
July Saturday 17 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
Sunday 18 at 10.30am-12.00am
August Saturday 28 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
Sunday 29 at 10.30am-12.00am
September Saturday 18 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
Sunday 19 at 10.30am-12.00am
October Saturday 16 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
Sunday 17 at 10.30am-12.00am
November Saturday 20 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
Sunday 21 at 10.30am-12.00am
December Saturday 18 at 4.00pm-5.30pm
Sunday 19 at 10.30am-12.00am
Specola and Gallileo museums
Various Locations
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| July 15 - November 2 |
| Paris is Well Worth a Mass! in Florence. |
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From the 15th of July to the 2nd of November 2010 at the Museum of the Medici Chapels in Florence, the exhibition "Paris is well worth a Mass! The Medici tribute to Henry IV, King of France" will take place.
Four hundred years after the assassination of Henry IV, on May 14, 1610 in Paris, the Soprintendenza of Florence with the Museo delle Cappelle Medicee, in conjunction with the Musée National du Château de Pau, will celebrate the King of France and Navarre with a major exhibition. The fulcrum of the exhibition consists of the 19 monochrome canvases that Cosimo II de´ Medici commissioned to Florentine academic painters to celebrate a funeral service for Henry IV with great pomp on September 16, 1610 in the Basilica of San Lorenzo. Having recently succeeded his father Ferdinando I to the throne, the new Grand Duke had an important funeral held in effigy for the "most Christian King". This decision was part of the consolidated practise that, as of the sixteenth century, saw the Medici family, rulers of Florence, show their political influence in Europe also with scenographic productions tied to the family events of the principal dynasties: births, weddings and deaths. The paintings were arranged along the walls of the church, entirely decked in mourning, but scenographically illuminated by a great number of candles, with elements evoking the King´s triumphs and virtues, so as to perpetuate his glory beyond death. Executed by a till then little known pleiad of painters and artists who trained under Empoli, Curradi and Poccetti, the paintings had subjects dictated by historians and men of letters, and dealt with episodes in which the Medici had played an important role. The exhibition in the two venues is of great, though slightly differentiated importance, for intuitable reasons of communication. While the figure of Henry IV is very clear for Navarre, the same can not be said for Florence, where a didactic presentation will be necessary. A part of the exhibition will therefore be dedicated to the Medici and the family politics which saw Maria, granddaughter of Ferdinando I, marry Henry IV in 1600 and, following the assassination of the King, assume the regency of France for the dauphin. With the magnificence of the funeral ceremony celebrated in Florence, the Medici court emphasised the legitimacy of that regency and of the succession to the throne of Louis XIII. In addition to the paintings, the show will also present books, engravings and drawings for the celebration, the Medici family tree, medals of the principal figures tied to the episode, wedding documents, precious portraits of the King and Queen in painting and sculpture, and a magnificent drawing by Pieter Paul Rubens with Maria de´ Medici Landing at Marseilles, executed as a model for the cycle in the Luxembourg Palace, which Maria commissioned the painter between 1622 and 1624. The installation by the technicians of the Soprintendenza and those of the Musée de Pau will be evocative and respectful of the characteristics of the two venues.
Medici Chapels
Daily: 8.15-13.50
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| July 20 - May 15 |
| Vinum Nostrum - Our Wine |
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From July 20th, 2010, to May 15th, 2011, at the Museo degli Argenti at Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the exhibition "Vinum Nostrum: art, science and myths of wine in ancient Mediterranean civilisations" will take place.
From Mesopotamia to our tables, from the rite of communion to avoidable drunkenness, from distasteful habit to gate of spirituality, wine and the grapevine are the protagonists of the exhibition. Original showpieces, sculptures, frescoes and mosaics, accompanied by multimedia and video installations will recount the millenarian history of the grapevine and of wine, and the important influence they exerted on the culture of the ancients. Following a chronological development, the exhibition will illustrate the origin of wine-growing in the Near East, its full affirmation along with its related symbolic, religious and cultural significance in the Hellenic world, up to its production and large-scale diffusion practised by the Romans. By virtue of the abundant archaeological remains of the Vesuvian cities, the particular case of the vineyards of Pompeii will be illustrated, while the exhibition will devote another section to the extraordinary contribution of the Phoenicians and the Etruscans, who played an essential role in spreading the cultivation of the vitis vinifera throughout the Mediterranean. While inviting visitors to reflect on the evolution of cultivation techniques (reproduction and genetic improvement, ploughing the land, bedding plants, tending the vineyard, theoretical principles and practical instructions for pruning and grafting), specially selected exhibits will also illustrate the religious and cultural values of the grapevine, expressed since the most remote epochs through a very vast series of depictions which speak of the divinities, rituals and festivities of wine. Precious sculptures and painted vases will illustrate the birth and spreading of the cult of Dionysus, capable according to tradition of continuously changing form and substance. Moreover, elegant table-services will clarify how the consumption of wine represented one of the most important moments of conviviality among patricians. A cella vinaria where wine was stored, scenographically reconstructed based on precious finds uncovered at Pompeii and on the precise descriptions contained in Latin literature, will enable the visitor to delve into the reality of the past, as he walks amidst tools for the vineyard, wine amphorae and wooden barrels, baskets for harvesting, carts and all of the necessary equipment. The exhibition itinerary aims not only at scientifically documenting the entire cycle of wine, from harvest to consumption, but also at stimulating taste, smell and sight, the senses that have a close relationship with wine which emerge at different historical and social levels.
open 8:15am - 6:50pm
Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti
www.unannoadarte.it/inglese/default.html
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| August 29 - November 21 |
| Vennice Biennale for Architecture |
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The 12th Intl. Architecture Exhibition, directed by Kazuyo Sejima and titled People meet in architecture, 12th International Architecture Exhibition
People meet in architecture
This 12th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Kazuyo Sejima, will be held at the Giardini and at the Arsenale (preview August 26, 27 and 28, 2010), and in various other venues in Venice.
After a series of editions of the Architecture Biennale directed by eminent critics and historians, this Sector is once again in the hands of an architect, Kazuyo Sejima. The first woman to direct the Architecture Sector of the Biennale, Sejima has recently been awarded the prestigious Pritzker
(preview the 26th and 27th)
See the Attache for more information.
Biennale Architecture
Architecture Saturdays
A series of conversations and opportunities for discussion held weekly with architects, critics and figures from the world of architecture in Italy and abroad for the entire period of the Exhibition’s opening. 35 years after the first architecture exhibition, the cycle of “Architecture Saturdays” intends to explore the history of the exhibitions that have been held since then, inviting the directors of those editions to a meeting with the audience.
To view the participating architects....
www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/exhibition/participants/
Giardini and at the Arsenale,Venice and throughout the city
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| September 10 - January 10 |
| The Large Bronzes of the Baptistery: Leonardo and Rustici in Florence |
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From the 10th of September 2010 to the 10th of January 2011, at the Bargello National Museum in Florence, the exhibition "The Large Bronzes of the Baptistery: Leonardo and Rustici" will take place.
This is the first exhibition ever dedicated to Giovanfrancesco Rustici. Born in Florence in 1475, the sculptor trained in the celebrated Garden of San Marco under the protection of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and was the heir of the lesson of the workshops of Andrea del Verrocchio and Benedetto da Maiano. Close to Leonardo, whose student and assistant he was, Giovanfrancesco was also friend of Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Sansovino, Domenico Puligo and Baccio Bandinelli, and preceded Rosso Fiorentino and Benvenuto Cellini in accepting the invitation of Francis I - king of France tied to the birth of the so-called Fontainebleau School - in 1528 moving to France, where he died in 1554.
The focal point of the exhibition is Rustici´s masterpiece, the Sermon of Saint John the Baptist. This group sculpture of three grandiose bronze figures, designed and executed with the participation of Leonardo da Vinci, was placed over the North Door of the Baptistery of Florence in 1511. The challenging restoration it was subjected to (completed in 2008) has restored the splendour of material and conception: an undertaking supported by the Opera del Duomo di Firenze and the generous contribution of the "Friends of Florence". The presence in the show of the monumental group sculpture constitutes an unmissable twofold opportunity: on one hand, to show Leonardo´s contribution in its creation through the comparison with Leonardesque autographic works and, on the other hand, to reconstruct for the first time Rustici´s artistic personality, which the latest studies have shed light on. The show will indeed present a practically complete review of his works (glazed ware, marbles, terracottas, paintings and other bronze sculptures of middle to small dimensions) which testify to his great technical versatility and the features of his style. Alongside Rustici´s works from the Bargello - such as the monumental Della Robbian "Noli me tangere" altarpiece or the Struggle of Horses and Horsemen in terracotta, inspired by Leonardo´s Battle of Anghiari - the exhibition will be completed by the most significant pieces attributed to his hand, and today divided among the major museums in Europe and the United States. The show will be hosted on the Museum´s ground floor in the rooms that already hosted (in 2008) the other bronze group sculpture of the Baptistery of San Giovanni for the monographic exhibition dedicated to Vincenzo Danti, which confirms a meditated planning and scientific continuity between the administrations of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello and the Opera del Duomo of Florence. The scientific project of this exhibition directed by Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi is by Tommaso Mozzati and Philippe Sénéchal, authors of two recent monographs on the sculptor.
Bargello
Monday – Sunday, 8.15 - 14.00 Closed 2nd, 4th Monday of each month, 1st, 3rd, 5th Sunday of each month, New Year’s Day, May 1st and Christmas Day.
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| September 24 - January 23 |
| Bronzino. Artist and Poet in Florence |
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From September 24th, 2010 up to January 23rd, 2011 the Palazzo Pitti in Florence will house the important exhibition Bronzino. Artist and Poet.
One of the greatest painters of the sixteenth century, Agnolo di Cosimo Tori, known as Bronzino (1503-1572), embodied the fullness of the ‘modern manner’ in the years of the government of Cosimo I de’ Medici.
Florence is clearly the preferential location for a monographic exhibition on Bronzino, since the majority of his paintings are still conserved here, above all in the Uffizi, but also in other city museums and in the churches. This exhibition, the first devoted to Agnolo’s pictorial work, will also avail of loans from the most important museums all over the world.
Design and planning carried out well in advance will make it possible to offer visitors not only the latest critical and philological novelties, but also everything else that emerges from the constant commitment of the curators and the scientific committee in the three years prior to the opening of the exhibition in 2010.
However, this is not an exhibition conceived solely for the specialists. It will comprise a selection of only works of the very highest level: autograph works by Bronzino and other artists connected with him – such as Pontormo and Alessandro Allori. The idea is, through direct comparisons made possible for the first time, to enable a broad public to admire and comprehend the unrivalled poetic heights achieved by the artist.
Finally, it will be possible to study and compare several works, most of them attributed with certainty to Bronzino, that are being displayed to the public for the first time. The exhibition will be divided into chapters devoted to crucial phases, episodes or genres in Bronzino’s work.
The show will bring together a wide variety of Bronzino’s masterpieces, some of them displayed together for the first time, in addition to a selection of drawings originating from the greatest museums in the world. Alongside the works conserved in the Uffizi, the exhibition will present works such as the Adoration of the Shepherds from the Szépmuvészeti Múzeum in Budapest, the Portrait of young man with a book from the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Holy Family and Saint John, in the version of the Louvre (Paris) and of the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.
The Scientific Committee will be composed of the major experts on the period, who will contribute to the exhibition catalogue with essays of elevated scientific importance.
The show is designed to play a central role within the ambit of celebrations for the “Bronzino Year”, together with the major exhibition Drawings of Bronzino (January 20-April 18 2010) scheduled to run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, dedicated to the artist’s graphic production.
Palazzo Strozzi
Daily 9 a.m-8 p.m, Thursday 9 a.m-11 p.m
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| October 1 - January 23 |
| Large Mirror CUbe - A Space for Reflection and Meditation/ Pistoletto |
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An Installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto will be coming to Palazzo Strozzi´s Cortile
Metrocubo d´Infinito in un Cubo Specchiante (Square Metre of Infinity in a Mirror Cube), an installation covered externally with opaque steel plates and internally clad with mirrors, is intended to offer the public an opportunity to experience boundless space. Its centre will be occupied by one of the artist´s historic works, the Metrocubo di Infinito (Square Metre of Infinity), 1966, which consists of exceptionally opaque surfaces on the outside and reflecting surfaces on the inside, thus taking the potential of refraction to its extreme limit.
Pistoletto himself argues that “the mirror expands the eye´s characteristics and the mind´s capabilities to the point where it offers a vision of totality”. The work of art becomes a secular place for meditation, where man with his capacity for imagination is the only true value.
In partnership with Castello di Ama per l’arte contemporanea
With the collaboration of Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto; Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin; Carlo Falciani
Palazzo Strozzi
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