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Hotel Villa Olmi Resort http://villaolmiresort.com Florence Deluxe hotels Villa Olmi Resort Florence Impruneta Bagno a Ripoli - Official Site - 5 star hotels Florence enWed, 08 Sep 2010 13:29:50 GMTNews and Eventshttp://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationhttp://villaolmiresort.com/Img/logo.gifHotel Villa Olmi Resorthttp://villaolmiresort.comNuptial Arthttp://villaolmiresort.com/hotel-firenze-events-en-248.htmHow was marital life in the Italian Renaissance, how were gender roles within the couple and, more importantly, what did you need to do to be considered virtuous? Providing an answer to these questions is the Virtues of Love exhibition, hosted in two venues in Florence, in the Horne and Accademia Gallery museums. Renaissance marital life is portrayed in an exhibition of over 40 valuable paintings of the 15th century from renowned international and Italian museums. These paintings adorned sumptuous furnishings – chests (cassoni), headboards, beds – of Florentine houses of the time and are a celebration of weddings and dynasties, of civic and marital values. The paintings were commissioned for the weddings and were mostly due to be part of the spouses’ bedrooms, centre of the public and private marital life. The main function of room paintings was to warn or push the couple towards an exemplary behaviour through the scenes portrayed. The exhibition aims at highlighting this aspect, which helps us to understand a key feature of 15th century Florence: the virtues of love were not subject to laws related to feelings, but related to the laws of society. The exhibition draws on the so-called “Cassone Adimari” held by the Accademia Gallery in Florence and painted by Masaccio’s brother Scheggia. Wedding chests were meant to rest against a wall, which is why only three of their sides are painted; intact wedding chests of the time are very far and few between: the exhibition includes the chest portraying the Palio di San Giovanni, a fair of historical costumes and crafts, by Giovanni Toscani of Bargello National Museum. Other paintings part of the exhibition are at the Horne Museum, which hosts works from private collections. It’s worth remembering that a wedding also and mainly meant new children and perpetuating the lineage. This is why the last section of the exhibition focuses on the glory of the dynasty, portrayed in stories that illustrate the creation of well-known lineages, such as Enea and David or Petrarch’s “The Triumphs of Fame, Time and Eternity”. These images were also painted on birth trays (deschi da parto), circular or multi-sided medium-sized trays painted on both sides. Originally they were probably used as trays to present a meal to the mother after childbirth and they then became propitiating gifts for a strong and healthy progeny and to ward off risks related to labour or childbirth and were hung on the room’s wall. An outstanding birth tray is the one portraying the “The Triumph of Fame” by Scheggia and now held by New York’s Metropolitan Museum and once owned by Lorenzo the Magnificent and painted for his birth in 1448 Virtues of love. Nuptial painting in 15th century Florence Accademia Gallery Horne Museum 8th June- 1st November Opening Hours: Accademia 8.15am - 6.50pm Horne 9am-1pm info 055 294883 <a href="http://www.unannoadarte.it/">www.unannoadarte.it</a> Website <a href='http://www.villaolmiresort.com' title='hotel villa olmi'>www.villaolmiresort.com</a>News and Activitieshttp://villaolmiresort.com/hotel-firenze-en-248.htmMacchiaioli painters in San Godenzohttp://villaolmiresort.com/hotel-firenze-events-en-246.htmGiovanni Fattori, a painter from Livorno, lived in San Godenzo, in Tuscany’s Apennine mountains exactly 130 years ago. He was staying with a friend called Pierozzi and the Apennine town, so different from the sunny landscapes of the Maremma region, inspired the artist, who painted the well-known work Mercato del bestiame a San Godenzo. The painting is on display at Palazzo Pitti’s Modern Art Gallery in Florence. Now in the leafy town of Castagno d’Andrea, paintings of Fattori and other Macchiaioli painters are on display from 10th July at the Enrica Rainetti Cultural Centre. The exhibition is called Life of a collection, a collection of life and presents 77 works. The exhibition begins with works that refer to Romantic and academic painting and then introduces the real Fattori and his most famous canvases. The works of other leading figures are also on display: Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini, Cristiano Banti, Odoardo Borrani, Vincenzo Cabianca and others. The exhibition is the first part of a greater project that in 2011 will feature important works of Italian 20th century artists. These were included in the impressive collection, which went missing following the death of the owner. Life of a collection. A collection of life. Macchiaioli painters in San Godenzo From 10th July to 29 August Rainetti Cultural Centre, Castagno d’Andrea Open from Wednesday to Sunday 10am -12.30pm; 4pm – 8pm tel. 055 8373826 <a href="http://www.comune.san-godenzo.fi.it/">www.comune.san-godenzo.fi.it</a> Website <a href='http://www.villaolmiresort.com' title='hotel villa olmi'>www.villaolmiresort.com</a>News and Activitieshttp://villaolmiresort.com/hotel-firenze-en-246.htmCaravaggio e caravaggeschi http://villaolmiresort.com/hotel-firenze-events-en-242.htmFlorence and Caravaggio: sound like a gamble? Did Caravaggio actually come through Florence? Did he see, as some would claim, the wonderful botanical watercolours by Jacopo Ligozzi in the Medici collection? It is certain that he frequented the Palazzo Firenze in Rome whence ambassador Cardinal Del Monte kept on good terms with grand duke Ferdinando I de' Medici. While the other interrogatives remain without answers for the moment, we know that splendid paintings by Caravaggio - the Bacchus and the Medusa - reached the Uffizi already towards the end of the XVI century. Others (two or three) were in time purchased by the Grand Dukes who thus proved to be early and staunch admirers - especially Cosimo II - of the controversial Lombard painter and of his followers and imitators. The presence of important artists in the city such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Battistello Caracciolo and Theodoor Rombouts, and the direct dealings with artists like Gerrit Honthorst, Bartolomeo Manfredi and Jusepe Ribera gave rise to an intense Caravaggesque "season" which left an extraordinary number of paintings at the court and in the city that after Rome still today boasts the largest collection of Caravaggesque paintings in the world. Gerrit Honthorst (who authored the Adoration of the Shepherds, today in the Uffizi Gallery, though heavily damaged by the Via dei Georgofili bombing of 1993) was the protagonist of one of the most important episodes of the fortune of Caravaggesque painting outside of Rome. This was the never completed decoration of the Guicciardini Chapel in the church of Santa Felicita which he was to execute with Cecco del Caravaggio (the Resurrection of Christ, Art Institute of Chicago) and Spadarino and of which, for the first time, the exhibition proposes a virtual reconstruction. Thanks to the outstanding Florentine legacy of works by Caravaggio, a nucleus of Caravaggesque paintings, and numerous loans, two of the most important state museums of Florence - the Uffizi Gallery and the Palatine Gallery - will host the Caravaggio and Caravaggesque exhibition in Florence, on the occasion of the IV centennial of Caravaggio's death. Forty years after the pioneering exhibition curated by Evelina Borea, the event will be the occasion to present more than one hundred paintings, both famous and less famous, in the light of research, documents and new attributions that have modified the critical panorama and the taste of the public. Website <a href='http://www.villaolmiresort.com' title='hotel villa olmi'>www.villaolmiresort.com</a>News and Activitieshttp://villaolmiresort.com/hotel-firenze-en-242.htm