Benvenuti and Bernini, Mapplethorpe and Ferdinando I de’ Medici, the XVIII century in Florence, the reflections of ancient art in twentieth-century art, the civilisation of Petra, and Sacred Art. Eight major exhibitions confront various themes for tastes and expectations of every kind.
Program
Palatine Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art
Imperial Painter.
Pietro Benvenuti (March 10 – June 21)
Museo degli Argenti
Memories of Antiquity in Twentieth-century Art
(March 14 – July 12)
Bargello
Bernini: The Living Marbles
(April 2 – July 12)
Accademia Gallery
Robert Mapplethorpe, Perfection in Form
(May 26 – Sept 27)
Medici Chapels
Ferdinando I de’ Medici. Maiestate tantum
(May 2 – Nov 2)
Uffizi Gallery
Splendour and Reason. Art in Eighteenth-century Florence
(May 30 – Sept 30)
Boboli Gardens, the Limonaia
From Petra to Shawbak. Archaeology of a Frontier
(July 13 – Sept 20)
Palatine Gallery
The Art of God
(Nov 21, 2009 – April, 2010)
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