THE GREAT BRONZE RUSTIC AND LEONARDO BATTISTERO
Museo Nazionale del Bargello
10 settembre 2010 - 10 gennaio 2011
The first exhibition is being devoted to Giovanfrancesco Rustici, a sculptor born in 1475 in Florence, trained in the famous garden of San Marco under the patronage of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the inheritor of the lesson workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio and Benedetto da Majano. Close to Leonardo, which was a pupil and collaborator, Giovanfrancesco was also a friend and associates of Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Sansovino, Baccio Bandinelli and Domenico Puligo and anticipate Rosso Fiorentino and Benvenuto Cellini in accepting the invitation of Francis I - French King which binds the birth of the so-called School of Fontainebleau - moved to France in 1528, where he died in 1554.
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"Paris is worth a mass!" Homage to Henry IV KING OF DOCTORS OF FRANCE
Museo delle Cappelle Medicee
15 luglio - 2 novembre 2010
A four hundred years dall'assassinio of Henry IV, which took place in Paris on 14 May 1610, the Superintendency of Florence under the Medici Chapels, together with the Musée national du château de Pau, will celebrate with a major exhibition, the King of France and of Navarre. The centerpiece of the exhibition is made up of 19 monochrome paintings that Cosimo II de 'Medici commissioned academic Florentine painters to celebrate with great pomp, the funeral of Henri IV September 16, 1610 in the Basilica of San Lorenzo. Recently happened his father Ferdinand I, Grand Duke did provide an important new funeral in effigy for the "Most Christian King." This choice is the established practice that, from the sixteenth century, saw the Medici family, reigned in Florence, to show their political influence in Europe even through staging events linked to the main family dynasties: births, marriages and deaths. The canvases were placed along the walls of the church, all hung with mourning, but dramatically illuminated by a large amount of candles, with elements that recall the deeds and virtues of the King, so as to perpetuate the glory after death.
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