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Lucca Summer Festival 2011

[ 1 Luglio 2011 a 24 Luglio 2011. ] Un'estate con Jamiroquai, Liza Minnelli, Elton John, Amy Winehouse, Zucchero e molti altri artisti

Anche quest’anno il prestigioso palco di Lucca ospita grandi artisti internazionali. Dal 1 al 24 luglio si susseguono sulla scena Francesco Guccini (1 luglio), Blink 182 (5 luglio), Zucchero (8 luglio), Arcade Fire (9 luglio), Elton John (14 luglio), Joe Cocker e BB King (15 luglio), Amy Winehouse (16 luglio), Ben Harper (18 luglio), Liza Minnelli (19 luglio), James Blunt (21 luglio), Enrico Brignano (23 luglio) e infine Jamiroquai (24 luglio).

Un’estate davvero infuocata che riconferma il Lucca Summer Festival come uno dei migliori festival musicali in Italia.

Lucca si trova a soli 70 km da Firenze: per raggiungerla in macchina o in autobus ci vogliono circa 50 minuti, in treno circa 1 ora e 15 minuti.

Dove: Piazza Napoleone, Lucca
Quando: 1-24 luglio 2011
Ore: 21.30
Info: summer-festival.com

Angry young men: Picasso, Miró, Dalí in Florence from 12th March 2011 at 09:00 a.m. to 17th July 2011 at 08:00 p.m.

From March 12th until July 17th, 2011 the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will house the exhibition Angry young men: Picasso, Miró, Dalí.  

The exhibition, which will be held first at the Kunstahalle in Bonn, is dedicated to the early work of Picasso, Mirò and Dalí, which played a decisive role in the beginning of modern art in Spain. The exhibition concentrates on Picasso’s pre-cubist period 1900 – 1905, whilst Juan Mirò’s works of 1915–1920 are presented along with Salvador Dali’s from 1920–1925, both artists painting in the period before the discovery of surrealism. Each artist will be represented by 25 – 30 masterpieces selected to show aspects of the three artists in their earliest periods, works that are rarely shown in mainstream catalogues and exhibitions. For instance, Picasso’s early work was often coloured by his strong political convictions.

In Madrid in 1901, Picasso and his anarchist friend Francisco de Asís Soler founded the magazine Arte Joven (Young Art), which published five issues. Picasso illustrated the journal, mostly contributing grim cartoons depicting and sympathizing with the state of the poor. Mirò too understood art as political, and Miró’s oft-quoted assassination of painting is derived from a dislike of bourgeois art of any kind, especially when used as a way to promote cultural identity among the wealthy. Specifically, Miró saw Cubism in this way, and he is quoted as saying I will break their guitars, referring to Picasso and Braque’s early Cubist paintings. Much younger than Picasso and Mirò, Dalí was expelled from the Academia in 1926 shortly before his final exams when he stated that no one on the faculty was competent enough to examine him. His mastery of painting skills is well documented in his early works, such as the flawlessly realistic Girl at the window, which was painted in 1926.

That same year he made his first visit to Paris where he met with Pablo Picasso, whom young Dalí revered – Picasso had already heard favourable things about Dalí from Joan Mirò.
 
Opening times: daily 9,00-20,00, Thurdays 9,00-23,00
Last admission to the exhibition 1 hour before closing
 
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THE GALLERY OF THE ACADEMY

centuries. The collection is especially important for its gold-ground paintings. In the first floor rooms is a sequence of splendid late-gothic polyptychs, complete in all their parts.
There is also a collection of sculptures in plaster by the 19th-century sculptors Lorenzo Bartolini and Luigi Pampaloni, besides a section of Russian icons.
Recently the Gallery has been further enriched by the important collection of old musical instruments from the Cherubini Conservatory, the Department of Musical Instruments.

UFFIZI GALLERY

This is one of the most famous museums of paintings and sculpture in the world. Its collection of Primitive and Renaissance paintings comprises several universally acclaimed masterpieces of all time, including works by Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio. German, Dutch and Flemish masters are also well represented with important works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Rubens.
The Uffizi Gallery occupies the top floor of the large building erected by Giorgio Vasari between 1560 and 1580 to house the administrative offices of the Tuscan State. The Gallery was created by Grand-duke Francesco I and subsequently enriched by various members of the Medici family, who were great collectors of
paintings, sculpture and works of art. The collection was rearranged and enlarged by the Lorraine Grand-dukes, who succeeded the Medici, and finally by the Italian State.
The Uffizi buildings also house other important collections: the Contini Bonacossi Collection and the Collection of Prints and Drawings (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi).
The Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway connecting the Uffizi with the Pitti Palace, was built by Vasari in 1565. It is hung with an important collection of 17th-century paintings and the famous collection of artists’ Self-portraits.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

For the Love of God, the skull studded with diamonds realised by English artist Damien Hirst, which has become legendary since it was displayed for the first time in 2007, will be on view at Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence, from 26th November 2010 to 1st May 2011.
For the Love of God is a platinum life-size model of a human skull studded with 8,601 absolutely pure and almost flawless diamonds, for a total of 1,106,18 carats. A large pear-shaped pink diamond is located in the forehead, also known as the “star of the skull”, while the teeth were taken from a real 18th-century skull bought by Hirst in London.
The diamond skull has no precedents in the history of art. From a certain point of view, the work represents a traditional “memento mori”, an object which deals with the transitoriness of the human existence. As the Dutch art historian Rudi Fuchs says: “The skull is out of this world, almost celestial. It proclaims victory over decay. At the same time, it represents death as something infinitely more relentless. Compared to the tearful sadness of a vanitas scene, the diamond skull is pure glory”.

Money and beauty. Bankers, Botticelli and the bonfire of vanities in Florence

From September 23rd, 2011 to January 22nd, 2012 the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will house the exhibition Money and beauty. Bankers, Botticelli and the bonfire of vanities.

Masterpieces by Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Beato Angelico, Paolo Uccello, Donatello, Antonio del Pollaiolo, Domenico Veneziano and Lorenzo di Credi – the cream of Renaissance artists – show how the modern banking system developed in parallel alongside the most important artistic flowering in the history of the Western world. The exhibition also explores the links between that unique interweave of high finance, economy and art, and the religious and political upheavals of the time.

Money and Beauty.  From Bankers to Botticelli and the Bonfires of the Vanities recounts the birth of our modern banking system and of the economic boom that it triggered, providing a reconstruction of European life and the continent’s economy from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.  Visitors can delve into the daily life of the families that controlled the banking system and perceive the ongoing clash between spiritual and economic values that was such a feature of it.  The saga of the art patrons is closely linked to that of the bankers who financed the ventures of princes and nobles alike, and indeed it was that very convergence that provided the humus in which some of the leading artists of the time were able to flourish.

The exhibition takes the visitor on a journey to the roots of Florentine power in Europe, but it also explores the economic mechanisms which allowed the Florentines to dominate the world of trade and business 500 years before modern communication methods were invented, and in so doing, to finance the Renaissance.  The exhibition analyses the systems that bankers used to build up their immense fortunes, it illustrates the way in which they handled international relations and it also sheds light on the birth of modern art patronage, which frequently began as a penitential gesture only to then turn into a tool for wielding power.

Curated by writer and translator Tim Parks, author of Medici Money - Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-century Florence, and by art historian Ludovica Sebregondi, the exhibition aims to provide the visitor with an opportunity to look at art from a cross-disciplinary perspective involving economists, politicians and diplomats, and to examine the story of how the Florentine Renaissance began from the standpoint of the (open, but more often hidden) relationship between art, power and money.  Hence its title: Money and Beauty.
Crucial to the illustration of this story are the masterpieces created for the great banking families, while the trajectory of Florence’s great families, rocked by financial setbacks, drew to a close with the political and religious storm triggered by Savonarola.  With his "bonfires of the vanities", the Dominican friar rejected everything that the Renaissance had stood for, even though he was part and parcel of it himself.  A multimedia reconstruction illustrates and interprets the bonfires’ significance and content.

The exhibition also uses the detailed depiction of episodes in bankers’ daily lives (the work of several leading Flemish artists) to illustrate the era when Florence was the financial capital of the world, and an array of multimedia tools help the visitor to get a clear perception of the ways in which trade was conducted and money travelled throughout the known world at the time.
 
Opening times: daily 9,00-20,00, Thurdays 9,00-23,00
Last admission to the exhibition 1 hour before closing
 
Bookings
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Tel. +39 055 2469600
Fax. +39 055 244145
prenotazioni@cscsigma.it


For further information: +39 055/2645155
Address:
Piazza Strozzi, 50123 Florence (FI)