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July 7, 2022

Caterina Enni Misson

Caterina Enni Misson worked for twenty years with the English painter Alexander J. Hamilton in pictorial decoration. In addition to having developed the technique of decoration, a good sense of color and composition has also known the lime finishes and the mastery of marmorino with the painter and designer Maurizio Pettini and it is this last technique that inspired her to a his personal work. His works are made with a palette knife on wood and the material is such that his paintings are almost a form of two-dimensional sculpture. The softness of the marmorino makes his paintings particularly material. In addition to being fascinated by the beauty of lime, Enni Misson is stimulated in her work by the rigidity of the tool, the spatula, and at the same time by its non-controllability. Maria Antonia Rinaldi, in the introduction to the exhibition catalog, identifies a specific modus operandi in which...

July 7, 2022

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Fotografe!

Villa Bardini and the Forte di Belvedere, in Florence, from 18 June to 2 October 2022, host the great FOTOGRAFE! exhibition, curated by Emanuela Sesti and Walter Guadagnini, presented and promoted by the Alinari Foundation for Photography and by the CR Firenze Foundation, in collaboration with the Municipality of Florence. A new and ambitious exhibition project whose absolute protagonists are the photographers of yesterday and today and which unites the rooms of the two host locations in a single, rich and evocative itinerary, which combines original works from the Alinari Archives with contemporary productions. The exhibition fits organically into the summer cultural offer of Forte di Belvedere curated by the Museo Novecento. Starting from the results of the research in the Alinari Archives, the exhibition project creates a path that intertwines and re-proposes in a synchronic way a story that from the photography of the origins it crosses the twentieth...

July 7, 2022

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Uffizi Treasures: il Martirio di Sant’Agata

This is one of the most important examples of Venetian painting from the 16th century, signed and dated Sebastianus Venetus faciebat Rome 1520 on the parapet in the foreground, where the henchmen’s knife has been placed. In a letter dated 29 December 1519, and addressed to Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sebastiano talks about a newly finished painting for Cardinal Rangone. Critics have highlighted the fact that the work was commissioned by Ercole Rangone, appointed cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1517 and holder of the church of Sant’Agata in Rome. The painting’s particular shape (rectangular but developed across its width), suggests that it was for private worship, meaning that the cardinal did not intend to display it on the altar of his church but rather, to keep it for himself. The painting shows the martyrdom of Agatha, a Sicilian virgin, who was born and lived in Catania in the 3rd century A.D....

July 7, 2022

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Artigianato e Palazzo Settembre 2022

ARTIGIANATO E PALAZZO returns in September with a new selection of over 90 witnesses of the highest artisan tradition, with a focus on emerging generations, selected between Italy and Europe. An unprecedented journey among the protagonists of the artisan culture of yesterday and today to: discover the masterpieces of master craftsmen; meet the young people of “Blogs & Crafts Europe”; understand the preciousness of a sustainably processed leather in the “Mostra Principe” dedicated to the Consortium of Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather; attend the many meetings including the presentation of the results of the "Kindness and Sustainability" project; to listen the new guests at the "Family Recipes" appointments and taste the dishes of the chefs-teachers of the Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Art served on hand-decorated porcelain plates by Fornasetti; visit the Artex exhibition and the Toscana Promotion video set up in the "Library" of Palazzo Corsini in the Focus...

July 7, 2022

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Parco Mediceo di Pratolino

Eight open-air concerts in the Medici Park a few kilometers from Florence. Edited by Metropolitan City, Florentine Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Tuscany and Music Pool. A day at the Medici park in Pratolino, a green lung a stone's throw from Florence, in the Municipality of Vaglia, is always a good idea. Even better if an excursion out of town is combined with a tour by an authorized guide to the historical-naturalistic wonders of the park and an en plein air concert. All this is “A music park”, a summer music festival also organized thanks to the funds that the Metropolitan City has invested for cultural activities in the area. Specifically, on the weekends from 25 June to 6 August in Pratolino you can listen to eight music concerts by Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Orchestra della Toscana and Music Pool. Before the concerts, guided tours of the park by the Pro...