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DISCOVER AND ENJOY
This month’s round-up of shows, art exhibitions, and events in Florence.
BENOZZO GOZZOLI e la Cappella dei Magi
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RENAISSANCE ART
at Palazzo Medici Riccardi • until 10 March
JENNY SAVILLE CONTEMPORARY ART Several locations • until 20 February
“Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna” by Luigi Cherubini OPERA
at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino • 4-8 February
SETA FASHION
at Museo Salvatore Ferragamo • until 18 April
COMING SOON Donatello, il Rinascimento ART
at Palazzo Strozzi-Museo Nazionale del Bargello • 19 March-31 July
... and more about the Secrets Tours at Palazzo Vecchio, the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, the new layout of the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Museo di San Marco and the Museo Galileo.
JENNY SAVILLE, CHASAH, 2020 © JENNY SAVILLE. PHOTO PRUDENCE CUMING ASSOCIATES. COURTESY GAGOSIAN
DISCOVER AND ENJOY
Temporary and permanent exhibitions in Florence welcome visitors in these early months of the year: go and discover the traces of the Italian Renaissance... with a few forays among 20th-century masterpieces.
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PALAZZO MEDICI RICCARDI, UNTIL 10 MARCH
BENOZZO GOZZOLI AND THE MAGI CHAPEL
RENAISSANCE ART An exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance master Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497) and his relationship with Florence and Tuscany. Before producing the prestigious work in the Chapel of the Magi at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the Florentine painter also worked alongside Beato Angelico during work in the Convent of San Marco, and then in Rome, in the Vatican and in central Italy. With a particular focus on the painting of the Chapel of the Magi, the exhibition ranges from original works to multimedia creations that allow us to explore his pictorial evidence in the city, through his intense relationship with the Medici family. It was a strong relationship that accompanied the artist throughout his long career, so much so that Benozzo did not hesitate to describe himself, in a letter to Lorenzo Medici in 1467, as “yours and of your house”.
“Benozzo Gozzoli e la Cappella dei Magi”
Palazzo Medici Riccardi. Via Cavour, 1. musefirenze.it - www.palazzomediciriccardi.it
SEVERAL LOCATIONS, UNTIL 20 FEBRUARY
JENNY SAVILLE MEETS MICHELANGELO
CONTEMPORARY ART Enormous depictions of naked female bodies, portrayed posed on stools or lying down, displaying provocative sexual forms: these are the themes that the young English artist Jenny Saville uses to confront the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, particularly Michelangelo. In various locations in the city, Saville represents a contemporary humanism that puts the female figure, crushed by the weight of existence, back at the centre of the story. In the rooms of the Museo del Novecento, as in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo as in the Pinacoteca of the Museo degli Innocenti and in Casa Buonarroti.
JENNY SAVILLE. Several locations. www.museonovecento.it
TEATRO DEL MAGGIO, 4-8 FEBRUARY
A PLAYFUL DRAMA… WITH BRIO
“Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna” by Luigi Cherubini New production - Première in Florence
Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Piazza Vittorio Gui, 1. www.maggiofiorentino.com OPERA Lorenzo Cherubini’s opera buffa, “Lo sposo di tre, e marito di nessuna”, the only one he wrote for Venice, enters the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with a new production. A playful drama in two acts, it made its successful debut at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice in 1783. Cherubini, who was little more than twenty years old at the time, tried his hand at an unusual genre for him, producing a divertissement in line with the tradition of the Neapolitan school, full of musical verve and brio. The action is enlivened by the usual whirlwind of deceptions, misunderstandings, pranks and masquerades between characters who seem to come straight out of the commedia dell’arte.
MASSIMO SESTINI © PH
NEWS FROM THE “DAVID” MUSEUM
COLLECTION A new layout has marked the reopening of the Galleria dell’Accademia in recent weeks: from the Gipsoteca to the Sala del Colosso, from the Sale Bizantine to the Dipartimento degli Strumenti Musicali. Six hundred works have found a new location in the museum with the largest number of Michelangelo’s sculptures in the world, in particular the ones placed along a path that accompanies the visitor to Michelangelo’s “David”. Work will continue in the coming months to make the vast Florentine collection of masterpieces of painting, sculpture and musical instruments even more attractive.
Galleria dell’Accademia. Via Ricasoli, 58/60. www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it
PALAZZO VECCHIO DISCOVERING THE SECRETS OF FLORENCE
Percorsi Segreti.
Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento, Studiolo di Francesco I. musefirenze.it/attivita/ percorsi-segreti/ EXPERIENCE Guided tours of Palazzo Vecchio allow you to visit a series of particularly precious rooms, including the staircase built at the behest of Gualtieri di Brienne and carved into the thickness of the wall, the Studiolo di Francesco I de’ Medici, a refined treasure chest “of rare and precious things”, and the Scrittoio of his father Cosimo I (better known as the “Tesoretto”), and finally the imposing truss structure that supports the coffered ceiling of the Salone dei Cinquecento.
IVORY MASTERPIECES
Sala degli Avori.
Museo Nazionale del Bargello. Via del Proconsolo, 4. www.bargellomusei. beniculturali.it SCULPTURE Rethinking the exhibition itinerary, improving conservation methods and enhancing the works on display: this was the aim of the complete renovation of the Sala degli Avori in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, which alone covers a time span of fifteen centuries, from rare Etruscan and Roman objects to 19th century artefacts. This is undoubtedly a collection that in terms of the abundance and prestige can be considered in line with some of the great European museums, such as the South Kensington Museum in London and the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
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FIRENZECARD
www.firenzecard.it
“Firenzecard” costs €85 and allows access to 60 museums and is valid for 72 hours from the initial entry to a museum on the Circuit. It can be purchased online or from one of the authorised sales points in Florence. Firenzecard includes: • 1 entry ticket + 1 exhibition supplement + 1 priority ticket for each museum on the Firenzecard circuit • Priority access to museums without booking, except for the Dome, Galleria degli Uffizi and Galleria dell’Accademia, where the booking is required but free. • When purchasing the Firenzecard, you can add “Firenzecard+” to use the city’s public transport (Ataf &Line buses and tramway) and the dedicated commercial offers. Firenzecard+ is valid for 72 hours from the first validation. • Finally, with “Firenzecard Restart” you will be able to visit the museums of the circuit that you didn’t manage to see on your first visit to Florence; you will be able to add another 48 effective hours to your expired FirenzeCard.
FROM GALILEO TOWARDS THE MODERN SCIENCE
Museo Galileo
Piazza dei Giudici, 1. www.museogalileo.it SCIENCE Don’t miss a visit to the Museo Galileo, an extraordinary collection of scientific instruments collected over nearly three centuries by the Medici and Lorraine families, including the only original telescopes by Galileo Galilei in the world. This is a precious testimony to the progressive improvement of observation and measurement instruments that favoured the enormous advancement of scientific knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries, a decisive contribution to the affirmation of modern science.
MUSEO SALVATORE FERRAGAMO, UNTIL 18 APRIL
A WUNDERKAMMER OF SILK PRINTS BY FERRAGAMO
FASHION Until 1950, the Ferragamo name was synonymous with women’s footwear. The brand’s founder, Salvatore, dreamed of transforming his internationally renowned brand into a fashion label that dressed a woman from head to toe. And his dream came true: it was one of his daughters, Fulvia, who launched in the 1970s the continuous production of women’s and men’s silk accessories with personalized patterns characterized by exclusive decorative subjects, especially flowers and exotic animals. This creative world overflows with inspirational references, from oriental art to twentieth-century paintings or ancient tomes on botany. At the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo you can explore the universe of printed fabrics, ties and scarves combined with the sources of inspiration for each motif - whether it be a book, a painting, vase or sculpture.
SETA. Museo Salvatore Ferragamo. Palazzo Spini Feroni. www.ferragamo.com
THE SACRED LIGHT OF PAINTING
Sala del Beato Angelico
Museo di San Marco. Piazza San Marco, 3 www.polomusealetoscana. beniculturali.it COLLECTION In the famous museum dedicated to the great painter and Dominican friar Beato Angelico, a room houses the world’s most important collection of works on wood by the founder of the early Florentine Renaissance: 16 works are housed in the new “Sala del Beato Angelico”, which has been completely refurbished to offer the public works with a clear and refined design that touches on peaks of pictorial delicacy and transparency.
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CELEBRATING DONATELLO
COMING SOON
EXHIBITION Coming next spring to Florence, this exhibition dedicated to Donatello aims to reconstruct the extraordinary career of one of the most important and influential masters of Italian art of all time, also comparing it with masterpieces by artists such as Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael and Michelangelo. The project was conceived as a celebration of Donatello in dialogue with museums, collections and institutions in Florence and throughout Italy, as well as through fundamental international collaborations, broadening the reflection on the materials, techniques and genres of his universe.
>> In the following months the exhibition will move to the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst in Berlin (autumn 2022) and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (spring 2023).
“Donatello, il Rinascimento”
Palazzo Strozzi-Museo Nazionale del Bargello. www.bargellomusei. beniculturali.it
2022 EVENTS IN ITALY
FEBRUARY
12/2-5/3 | Viareggio (Tuscany) | Carnevale di Viareggio. viareggio. ilcarnevale.com 12/2 -1/3 | Venice | Carnevale di Venezia. www.carnevale.venezia.it 22-28/2 | Milan | Milano Moda Donna. www.milanomodadonna.it
MARCH
End of March | Several locations | Spring Days FAI. www.giornatefai.it 24-27/3 | Perugia | Eurochocolate. www.eurochocolate.com 27/3 | Rome | Run Rome The Marathon. www.runromethemarathon.com 27/4-1/5 | Milan | MIA Fair (105th edition). www.miafair.it
MAY
2-15/5 | Rome | Tennis. Internazionali BNL d’Italia. www.internazionalibnlditalia.com 6-29/5 | Several locations in Italy | Giro d’Italia (105th edition). www.giroditalia.it 20/5-20/11 | Milan | 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition: "Unknown Unknowns". www.triennale.org 28/5-5/6 | Venice | Salone Nautico Venezia. www.salonenautico.venezia.it 29/5 | Mugello (Tuscany) | Moto GP. Gran Premio d’Italia. www.motogp.com
APRIL
1-3/4 | Milan | Miart. www.miart.it Mid-April | Milan | Milano Art Week. milanoartweek.comune.milano.it 10-12/4 | Milan | BIT Borsa Internazionale del Turismo. www.bit.fieramilano.it 10-13/4 | Verona | Vinitaly. www.vinitaly.com 23/4-27/11 | Venice | Biennale Arte 2022 (59th edition). www.labiennale.org
JUNE
7-12/6 | Milan | Salone del Mobile. Milano. www.salonemilano.it 15-18/6 | Brescia-Rome-Brescia | Mille Miglia 2022. www.1000miglia.it 16-19/6 | Milan and Monza | Milano Monza Motor Show 2022. www.milanomonza.com 17-21/6 | Milan | Milano Moda Uomo. www.milanomodauomo.it 17/6-4/9| Verona | Arena di Verona
2022 EVENTS IN ITALY
99th Opera Festival. www.arena.it 24/6– 10/7 | Spoleto (Umbria) | Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi (65th edition). festivaldispoleto.com
JULY
3/7 | Siena | Palio. www.ilpalio.org 8-17/7 | Perugia | Umbria Jazz. www.umbriajazz.it 16/7 | Venice | Festa del Redentore. venice.whereitalia.com
AUGUST
16/8 | Siena | Palio dell’Assunta. www.ilpalio.org 31/8-10/9 | Venice | International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art. www.labiennale.org
SEPTEMBER
11/9 | Monza (Milan) | Formula 1. Italian Grand Prix. www.formula1.com 16-19/9 | Terni | Umbria Jazz. www.umbriajazz.it 17-25/9 | Venice | The Venice Glass Week. www.theveniceglassweek.com 20-26/9 | Milan | Milano Moda Donna. www.cameramoda.it 22-27/9 | Genoa | International Boat Show. www.salonenautico.com
OCTOBER
8/10– 6/12 | Alba (Piedmont) | International Alba White Truffle Fair. www.fieradeltartufo.org 9/10 | Trieste | Barcolana. www.barcolana.it
NOVEMBER
3-6/11 | Verona | Fieracavalli (124th edition) www.fieracavalli.it 8-13/11 | Milan | EICMA. International Motorcycle and Accessories Exhibition. www.eicma.it Mid-November | Milan | BookCity Milano. bookcitymilano.it and Music Week. www.milanomusicweek.it 21/11 | Venice | Festa della Salute. www.whereitalia.com/venice End of November | Venice | Teatro La Fenice. Opening of Opera and Ballet season. www.teatrolafenice.it
DECEMBER
7/12 | Milan | Teatro alla Scala – Opening of the Opera Season. www.teatroallascala.org
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EXCLUSIVE TOUR AT THE ACCADEMIA
Don’t miss an original tour discovering the stories of the “David” by Michelangelo.
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DUOMO SMART PRIVATE TOUR
Enter the fascinating church of Santa Maria del Fiore with skip the line access. One hour tour with a private guide.
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THE SPECIAL ONES
MARKET TOUR AND TUSCAN COOKING EXPERIENCE
Let’s visit the Sant’Ambrogio Market with a chefguide and buy all the necessary for a cooking class. Enjoy your meal with a wine tasting.
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SPECIAL HUNT FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN
Learn about Florence’s past in a fun and entertaining way in an intriguing quiz and animal art hunt. Two itineraries are available: Medieval and Renaissance.
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