ART EXHIBITIONS IN FLORENCE

Reviews of the major exhibitions taking place in Florence Italy

September 16th / 2004 - January 2nd / 2005

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Palazzo Strozzi

Opening hours: Every day h. 9-19
Tickets: Full price € 8,00, Normal reduced and special concessions € 6,50
Information: Firenze Mostre, Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi 1, 50123 Firenze
Phone: 055.2776406 – 055.2776461
Official WEB: www.palazzostrozzi.info    www.botticellipalazzostrozzi.it

Uffizi Gallery

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday, h. 8:15 am – 6:50 pm. Ticket office closes at 6:05 pm. Closed Mondays, December 25 and New Year.
Tickets: Full price € 9,50. and special concessions € 4,75
Exhibitions Information and Bookings: Firenze Musei, 055.2654321
Official WEB: www.polomuseale.firenze.it    www.moi-autoritrattidelxxsecolo.it

Bargello National Museum

Opening hours: Monday-Sunday: h. 8.15-18.00. Closed 2nd and 4th Monday, Christmas, New Year.
Tickets: Full price € 7,00 (including entrance at the Bargello Museum). Reduction € 3,50 for 18-25 year olds from the European Union. Free for less than 18 and over 65 year olds from the European Union
Exhibitions Information and Bookings: Firenze Musei, 055.2654321
Official WEB: www.polomuseale.firenze.it

Pitti Palace
Cortile dell'Ammannati, Galleria Palatina,
Grotta Grande del Giardino di Boboli

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 8.15 - 18.50
Tickets: Full price € 8,50. Reduction € 4,25 for 18-25 year olds from the E.U.
Exhibitions Information and Bookings: Firenze Musei, 055.2654321
Official WEB: www.polomuseale.firenze.it    www.palazzopitti.it

Silver Museum - Pitti Palace

Opening hours: Monday-Sunday: 8.15 - 17.30 during March;
8.15 - 18.30 in Apr, May, Sep, Oct; 8.15 - 19.30 in Jun, Jul, Aug. Closed on first and last Monday of the mounth.
Tickets: Full price € 6,00. Reduction € 3,00 for 18-25 year olds from the E.U. Free for less than 18 and over 65 from the E.U.
Exhibitions Information and Bookings: Firenze Musei, 055.2654321
Official WEB: www.polomuseale.firenze.it

Detlef Heikamp is the curator of the new exhibition of Palazzo Pitti, titled La Reggia rivelata. The place of this event is the Palazzo Pitti because it is a special keeper of history; in fact, from 1550, with Eleonora da Toledo, the building becomes the house of the powerful families as: the Medici, the Lorena and the Savoia.
So, it is possible to admire an history of art, that, from the middle of the 1500, it arrives until the Romanticism. The artistic journey begins with the splendour of the works, inside and outside, of Ammannati, and it continues with the frescos, in the Sale dei Pianeti (Galleria Palatina), of Pietro da Cortona and of Ciro Ferri, recalling the taste and the choices of the proprietors of the palace: there are the classical sculptures as the Arringatore, or works as the Nettuno, carved by Stoldo Lorenzi for the Giardino of Boboli. Here, in this garden, it is possible to see, after an important restoration, also the Grotta Grande of Bernardo Buontalenti, that is the symbol of the Mannerism and where stands out, for beauty and skill, the Venere of Giambologna. Then, there are also two sections dedicated the first to the defensive architecture of the Palace and its relationship with Florence and the second to the problem of the structure of the Palazzo Pitti.
(G.V)

At Palazzo Pitti, into the Museo degli Argenti, opens an exhibition dedicated to glass during the roman edge, thanks, also, to the important loans from the British Museum of London, from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Napoli and the Soprintendenza Archeologica of Pompei. The exhibition shows about 400 works and it has four sections, that tell eachone a particular aspect of the use of this material.
The event opens with Una rivoluzione tecnologica, that has for theme the discovery of the technique of the “to blow the glass”, about I century a.c., when the Romans begin to refine the manufacture and to speed up the times; the exhibition continues with: Una rivoluzione di costume, that shows to visitor five different socio-economical places, rebuild with correctness, where there was a different use of the glass; then, there is Una rivoluzione architettonica, section where we can see the illustration of the fundamental property of this material: the transparency, used for window-panes, for gardens and for artistic and decorative mosaics. The last part, Una rivoluzione scientifica, tells about the technical and rational use of the glass, studied by philosophers and scientists for the magnifying lens and crystals.
(G.V)

Gallery of Modern Art - Pitti Palace

Museum of San Marco

Opening hours: monday-friday h. 8.15-13.50, saturday and sunday h. 8.15-19.00
Tickets:
Exhibitions Information and Bookings: Firenze Musei, 055.2654321
Official WEB: www.polomuseale.firenze.it

Museum of the History of Science

Opening hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 9.30-17.00, Tuesdays 9:30-13:00
Tickets:
Exhibitions Information and Bookings: +39 055 265 311
Official WEB: www.imss.fi.it

Archaeological National Museum, Palazzo della Crocetta - Florence