from 08.06.10 to 01.11.10
At the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, will be an exhibition whose heart consists of the important role which had the bedroom in the Renaissance. On display, everything decorating the room, from the headboard and decorated fronts of the so-called Cassone Adimari, to the “room painting”, with his messages of encouragement to the family values.
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from 21.05.10 to 10.10.10
The Palatina Gallery in Florence will host, on the celebrations occasion for the IV centenary of the death of Caravaggio, an exhibition of over one hundred works, well-known and less known, by Caravaggio and all those important artists who contributed to an intense Caravaggio “season”.
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from 25.03.10 to 27.06.10
At the Museo degli Argenti of Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, will open an exhibition on gems collecting that characterized the Italian Renaissance. Besides presenting a selected number of pieces of exceptional quality from the most important Italian and international museums, the exhibition will illustrate the complex history of cameos and carvings collection made by Cosimo, Piero and especially by Lorenzo de’ Medici, who purchases prestigious specimens as the so-called Seal of Nero, the splendid cornelian with Apollo and Marsyas.
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from 26.02.10 to 18.07.10
In the suggestive scenery of Palazzo Strozzi, will take place the exhibition of contemporary art, that essentially consists of a series of masterpieces of the metaphysical period of Giorgio de Chirico (1909-1919). Along with them are presented works by René Magritte and Balthus and other artists such as Max Ernst, Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Morandi, inspired by that metaphysics poetic recognized as the expression of the mood of an entire century.
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from 10.12.09 to 30.06.10
The money of Rome, the power of images in the Roman world
The National Archaeological Museum of Florence proposes a selection of Roman coins of Republican and Imperial age, who highlight the important role assumed by the money as a means of diffusion of the political power at fortunate military campaigns and restorations or public buildings construction.
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from 21.10.09 to 22.10.10
In Florence, opens to the public a new museum, unknown to the most, but rich in masterpieces such as the Adoration of the Child by Piero di Cosimo, the two wedding panels of Beccafumi, the magnificent paintings of Salvator Rosa and Luca Giordano. The palace, which belonged for centuries to the noble and ancient lineage, later went to the Curia of Florence, to which Francesca Martelli had left in the year of her death in 1986. Then became property of the Italian State. The museum will be open to the public initially on Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning, by appointment only, with guided tours.
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from 01.04.09 to 30.06.10
At the Specola Observatory in Florence, an exhibition on the most beautiful minerals in the world, that, thanks to its success, was further extended. Alberto Giazotto, a physical of particle, travelling from one end to another of the world, purchased individual samples from anonymous miners in Pakistan, Brazil, China or entire collections or parts of them between significant minerals, the cuprite sample of Onganja (Namibia); the great elbaite of Paprok (Afghanistan); the elbaite Coronel Murta (Brazil), Niccioleta (Tuscany) gypsum crystal.
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