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| March 1, 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
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| March 3, Wednesday |
| The reception of the Antique in Netherlandish painting and drawing of the 16th and 17th centuries |
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With Michael Kwakkelstein
From the early sixteenth century an increasing number of artists from the Low Countries travelled to Italy, especially Rome, to study the much praised antiquities as well as the latest developments in Italian Renaissance art. The aim of this lecture is to provide an overview of the most important Netherlandish artists and their different and changing responses to the antique. Dr Kwakkelstein is Director of the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence.
British Institute Library
Lungarno Guicciardini, 9 6pm
Www.britishinstitute.it
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| March 3, Wednesday |
| Spandau Ballet in Concert |
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Spandau Ballet is one of the most successful bands of the 1980s. The band has made the Top Ten with its singles and albums many times. In 1990 the group split up due to fights between the leader, Gary Kemp, and the rest of the band.
At the beginning of 2009 the five band members, Tony Hadley, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Steve Normane and John Keeble got back together for a reunion tour called "Reformation".
In the beginning Spandau Ballet took inspiration from a mix of Funk and Synthpop, then they changed to a New Romantic group, and they eventually took on an elegant and refined pop style. The most successful singles were True, Gold, Only When You Leave, To Cut a Long Story Short and Chant No 1 (I Don´ t Need This Pressure On).
Fans of the 80s will be able to once again hear the greatest hits by Spandau Ballet, who have reunited after almost 20 years, at the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence.
Informations and tickets
Nelson Mandela Forum
V.le Paoli, 3
50137 Firenze (FI)
tel. +39 055 678841
Nelson Mandela Forum
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| March 4, Thursday |
| AfroEuropa: Incontri |
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An extraordinary photo exhibition of photographers unique perspectives of the African presence in Europe.
Members are invited to a private dinner in the Biaggiotti Villa following the opening. Those interested should contact the Attache.
Biaggiotti Art Gallery
6-9pm , Via Delle Belle Donne 39/r
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| March 5 - March 7 |
| International Democrats Abroad World Convention |
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Opening hosted in Palazzo Tornabuoni Rucellai Suite
Palazzo Tornabuoni Rucellai Suite
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| March 6 - March 9 |
| Don Quixote - Ballet |
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Maggio Danza and Orchestra of Maggio Musicale
Choreographed by Ludwig Minkus, Conducted by Giuseppe Mega
Teatro Communale - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
www.maggiofiorentino.it
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| March 6 - March 14 |
| Furniture Trade Show 2010 Florence |
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The 13th edition of Florence Furniture Fair is a well-awaited event by the public and will take place in the 16th-century Fortezza da Basso.
The Florentine furnishings fair is one of the most important in Italy given the number of exhibitors and the volume of sales, it offers an overview of the latest trends for furnishings and design, with the most renowned and relevant national brands.
Exhibitors and manufactures alike put their heart and soul to present the absolutely most trendy furnishings: from the modern to the classic, high-tech materials to natural ones, in best Tuscan tradition.
The Furniture Fair, is the perfect place to browse, get new ideas, consult with architects, interior decorators, and other experts in the field; the perfect place to check prices and get good buys.
The fair, after the good results of last year exibition that had seen almost 111,000 visitors, return this year from March 6 to 14, 2010
Fortezza da Basso
Monday- Saturday 3pm-10pm, Sunday 10:30am - 9pm
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| March 7, Sunday |
| ANTONIO Flamenco Dance from Spain |
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| March 8, Monday |
| Members´ Aperitivo |
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palazzo Library
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| March 10, Wednesday |
| How the British manage changes of government - Robin Butler |
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In Britain a change of government happens within twenty-four hours of a General Election; in the United States the process takes more than two months. Lord Butler, who was Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service in 1997 when the last such change took place in Britain, describes what happens behind the scenes and compares the strengths and weaknesses of the UK and US systems. Lord Butler served as Private Secretary to five successive Prime Ministers, chaired the enquiry into the use of intelligence in the lead-up to the Iraq war, and was Master of University College Oxford following his retirement from the Civil Service.
British Institute Library
Lungarno Guicciardini, 9 6pm
www.britishinstitute.it
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| March 12 - March 14 |
| From Field to Table - The Tastes of Tuscany |
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This culinary seminar will explore the markets, visit the producers. Students will learn to choose, prepare and cook the world renowned (and some insider) Tuscan dishes taking advantage of the extraordinary Taste fair which opens up venues city wide to explore the Tastes of Italy.
For more information contact: elucifero@palazzotornabuoni.com
Palazzo Tornabuoni and surrounding area
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| March 12 - March 20 |
| Korean Film Festival of Florence |
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Since 2003, in late March every year, the city of Florence has become a showcase for South Korean cinema. This is a nation with one of the most active and prolific cinema industries on the planet, so it is only fitting that this event be hosted by a city steeped in culture.
Here in Tuscany you will see the works of, and meet, the leading figures of the Korean movie world. Alongside the screenings and red carpet there will be a number of activities and events to keep you busy.
Every year the festival chooses a director and organises a retrospective (Kim Ki-Duk and Park Chan-Wook were the two previous choices).
Odeon Theatre, Piazza Strozzi
8pm-12:30am
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| March 13 - March 15 |
| Pitti - TASTE |
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The great event returns with Italian and international high gastronomy. With an attendance of 8,000 at the last edition and over 170 exhibitors, this taste and idea show is a reference for Italian and international operators in the sector. Taste was conceived by Davide Paolini (Radio24´s “Gastronaut”) and is organized by Pitti Immagine; Florence´s Leopolda Station will be the backdrop for this itinerary of tastings, discoveries and purchases of excellent gastronomic products from all over Italy. But the pleasures of wine and food are not Taste´s only focus. In fact, the show is also a place for cultural-gastronomic debate. The previous edition featured discussions (Taste Ring) of the trends and styles of the new culture of taste, exhibits of creative craft and design objects (Taste Tools) and, finally, an area dedicated to publishing and documentation. So, there are all the ingredients for imagining a similarly engaging 2010 edition. In addition, during Taste´s last week, there will be various collateral events (the "Out of Taste Events") that will transform Florence into the city of taste.
Stazione Leopolda
Viale Fratelli Rosselli, 5
www.stazione-leopolda.com
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| March 15, Monday |
| Renzo Arbore |
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Wonderful jazzy, light hearted Italian songs from the south. Renzo is a national treasure.
Teatro Verdi
Via Ghibellina
www.teatroverdifirenze.it
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| March 15, Monday |
| Members´ Aperitivo |
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Palazzo Library
6:30pm
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| March 17, Wednesday |
| Martino Traxler Is repatriation of art always the moral choice? |
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Martino Traxler
Repatriation is widely regarded as the correct moral answer in dealing with ancient objects, particularly those of undocumented provenance, such as the celebrated Euphronios Krater. Recently, however, international objections have been advanced to repatriation. Martino Traxler reviews this debate, considers the value of art objects from our cultural and historical perspective and looks at the nineteenth-century Italian discussion on these matters (starting with Canova´s efforts to effect the return of paintings and sculptures taken by Napoleon for the Louvre). Martino Traxler has a B.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy, and teaches for several junior-year abroad programmes in Florence.
British Institute Library
Lungarno Guicciardini, 9 6pm
www.britishinstitute.it
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| March 21, Sunday |
| Bollywood Musical |
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| March 22, Monday |
| Members´ Aperitivo |
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Palazzo Library
6:30pm Palazzo Tornabuoni
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| March 24, Wednesday |
| The Dog of Hearts: poetry in the heart of Europe |
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Poet Michael March says: ‘Without poetry - there would be chaos. “Art knows nothing of History, but helps itself to its terror.” The oedipal complex - versus the military-industrial complex- sucking on the milk-tooth of appearance - which apparently does violence to the truth. Fortunately, poets are the bloodhounds of the spirit- unfolding truth- from the lunatics who appear as the elected masters of words.’ Michael March is President of the Prague Writers Festival and professor of poetry at New York University in Prague.
British Institute Library
Lungarno Guicciardini, 9 6pm
www.britishinstitute.it
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| March 24 - March 28 |
| Cirque du Soleil - Saltimbanco |
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Mandela Forum
Wed-Fri 8pm, Saturday 4pm and 8pm, Sunday at 4pm
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| March 28, Sunday |
| G. ROSSINI | Petite Messe Solennelle |
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solisti e strumentisti di Maggio Fiorentino Formazione
soprano Ivanna Speranza
mezzosoprano Staphanie Lewis
tenore Roberto Jachini Virgili
baritono Mauro Bonfanti
pianoforte I Eugenio Milazzo
Pianoforte II Giovanna Borruso
Harmonium Beatrice Bartoli
Choir of Hannover Leibniz University
conductor Tabea Fishle
RIDOTTO del TEATRO COMUNALE
9:15pm
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| March 28, Sunday |
| ENSEMBLE CURRENTES |
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| March 29, Monday |
| W.A. MOZART | Requiem in D Minor K626 for solos, choir and orchestra |
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| March 29, Monday |
| Ensemble San Felice & Currentes Enseble Francesco Landini (ca. 1325 - 1397) |
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CANTASI COME | Laudi e contrafacta nella Firenze del Trecento
ENSEMBLE CURRENTES
Kristin Mulders voice
Jostein Gundersen flute
David Catalunya clavisimbalum
Hans Lub viella
ENSEMBLE SAN FELICE
Giulia Peri voice, viella
Cristina Bagnoli organo portativo
Federico Bardazzi viella
Quality youth, amateur and professional ensembles from all corners of the globe unite to present over five centuries of beautiful sacred music, ranging from solo performances of the Goldberg Variations to massive choral-symphonic productions of the Verdi, Brahms, Mozart, Faure Requiems and Beethoven´s 9th symphony. The festival has been enriched by and internationally recognised for its organisation of joint productions and stunning performances of ensembles from India, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe and the three Americas.
CHIESA di S. Stefano al Ponte
6:30pm
http://www.florenceyouthfestival.com/index.php?id=132
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| March 29, Monday |
| Members´ Aperitivo |
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Palazzo Library
6:30pm Palazzo Tornabuoni
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| March 30, Tuesday |
| AVE VERGENE GAUDENTE |
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| March 30, Tuesday |
| LA CHITARRA GUARDA A ORIENTE |
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The Guitar looks toward the East
Music composed and performed by Ganesh Del Vescovo for Chikari, Guitar-Sarod and Classic Guitar
“I have heard Del Vescovo many times over the years and every time I felt that I was entering into the atmosphere of emotion and evocative power of a beautiful musical talent. Though this atmosphere is particular and yet it is communicative and, in certain moments, radiant.”
(Mario Luzi, poet)
Chiesa di Santo Stefano al Ponte
9:15pm
http://www.florenceyouthfestival.com/index.php?id=132
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| March 31, Wednesday |
| MAURO PAGANI in concerto |
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| Daniel Barenboim on Piano - Chopin |
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- Fantasie in F minor Op. 49
- Nocturne in D flat major Op. 27 No. 2
- Sonata n. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35
- Barcarole in F sharp major Op. 60
- 3 Walzer
- Berceuse in D flat major Op. 57
- Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53
On the occasion of the 200th. Anniversary of the Birth of Chopin
Teatro Comunale
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| An Evening With Music and Dante |
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Composer Thierry Mader and filmmaker Amos Poe bring you an evening of music and Dante from their work-in-progress La Commedia di Amos Poe
Contact attache for reservations
Villa La Pietra
6pm
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| Concert with Rossini Philharmonic in San Lorenzo Square |
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| 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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| November 29 - |
| 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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| November 21 - April 19 |
| L´Arte di Dio |
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| January 14 - April 11 |
| The Great European Photography: Paris 1920-1940 |
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Between the two world wars, Paris, with its strong economy and sense of political and religious freedom unmatched elsewhere was a hotbed for photography. This exhibition features oer 100 vintage prints taken by 40 international photographers working in Paris between 1920 and 1940, alongside original documents from the period, such as magazines and books.
for more information contact: 055 216310 or mnaf@alinari.it
The National Alinari Museum of Photography
Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Open 10-19, closed Wednesday. TIckets 9euro
www.mnaf.it
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| February 13 - June 26 |
| Diaita. Health rules in the manuscripts of the Medici Laurentian Library in Florence |
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From February 13th to June 26th, 2010 the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence will open the new exhibition “Díaita. Heath rules in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana” an exposition concerning life style and diet as strategies to ensure physical and mental wellbeing.
This is a theme that is fashionable today as it was in the past when in Italy during the age of princely courts and wealthy merchants, the interest of the elite in preserving their health inspired the Regimina sanitatis - the offspring of the classical tradition gradually enriched by contact with the Arab world – contained in the manuscripts on display. The concept of a ‘life regime’ in the classical world was expressed by the term díaita/diaeta (which had nothing to do with adjusting rations according to an individual’s physical and biometric conditions, as it does today). Its meaning was far broader, encompassing all the areas that were not determined automatically by nature and that humans thus could plan of their own accord such as one’s relationship with air and water, food and drink, motion and rest, sleep and wakefulness, dejecta and sexuality, love and passion.
Amongst the manuscripts that can be viewed, all from the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, in Latin, Greek or Italian Vernacular and dating from the XII to the XVI centuries, some are particularly interesting: the Treatise on Cooking by Apicius that witnesses the specific importance of eating; the Tacuinum sanitatis by Ibn Butlan; the Regime del Corpo by Aldobrandino da Siena present in different Italian translations one realized in May 1310 by the Florentine notary Zucchero Bencivenni. Important among others is the Compendium of the nature and properties of food by Barnaba from Reggio in a parchment manuscript copied between the 13th and 14th century. “The exhibition is about a type of knowledge that has often survived in traditional medicine."
Catalogue: Diaita. Health rules in the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ed. by Donatella Lippi, presentation by Maria Prunai Falciani, Firenze, Mandragora, 2010. Entries by : E. Antonucci, A.R. Fantoni, I.G. Rao, S. Magrini
Laurentian Library , Piazza San Lorenzo, 9
For further information: ph. +39 055 210760 email: bmleventi@beniculturali.it Guided tours: ph.+39 055290184 - email: eventi@operadarte.net Address: Piazza San Lorenzo 9, 50123 Florence (FI) Attractions Accommodation Eating Out Event
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| February 18 - June 13 |
| Caravaggio in Rome |
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A sold out show -- May be extended -- for those thinking of taking a day trip to Rome:
Celebrating the fourth centenary of Caravaggio´s death, Rome´s Scuderie del Quirinale invites art critics and the general public to look at Caravaggio´s work from an innovative point of view. Bacco (Uffizi), musici (Metropolitan Museum) and other great pieces are displayed.
This concise, yet carefully structured, exhibition coupled with new research findings enables the viewer to rethink the painter´s artistic essence.
Scuderie del Quirinale
Rome
www.scuderiequirinale.it/mediacenter/FE/home.aspx
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| February 25 - July 18 |
| De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. A look into the invisible in Florence |
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In display mostly DeChirico´s work belonging to the so-called metaphysical painting lasted up to around 1918
Palazzo Strozzi
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| February 26 - July 18 |
| De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, and Balthus. Glance into the invisible. |
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Palazzo Strozzi will host an exhibition to celebrate the masterpieces of the father of metaphysical painting, Giorgio de Chirico, and of its perception of life after reading some works by philosopher and writer Friedrich Nietzsche.
Isolation, a sense of abandonment, alienation, anxiety and despair are just a few of the feelings that De Chirico is capable to convey, allowing them to powerfully emerge through his works. Others have confronted and identified with this artist´s vision of the world,
such as Belgian painter René Magritte, a leading representative of surrealism, and French painter Balthus, who, although initially inspired by pre-renaissance art, infuses his works with frequent elements of De Chirico´s metaphysical perception.
Other works will also be exhibited at Palazzo Strozzi, such as those by Marx Erns, Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Morandi, all artists who were inspired by De Chirico´s experience. The primary goal of this exhibition is exactly that: to find any common themes, similar subjects and insights between the works of different artists.
De Chirico´s poetics, which is appropriately considered the expression of that state of mind that characterized an entire century acts as the common thread between all the works in the exhibition.
For more information: 055 2645155
Palazzo Strozzi
Every day 9am to 8pm, Thursdays 9am to 11pm
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