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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 enSat, 31 Jul 2010 08:02:56 GMTNews and Eventshttp://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationhttp://villaolmiresort.com/Img/logo.gifHotel Villa Olmi Resorthttp://villaolmiresort.comMacchiaioli 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.htmParis is well worth a masshttp://villaolmiresort.com/hotel-firenze-events-en-247.htmFour hundred years after the assassination of Henry IV, on May 14, 1610 in Paris, the Soprintendenza of Florence with the Museo delle Cappelle Medicee, in conjunction with the Musée National du Château de Pau, will celebrate the King of France and Navarre with a major exhibition. The fulcrum of the exhibition consists of the 19 monochrome canvases that Cosimo II de' Medici commissioned to Florentine academic painters to celebrate a funeral service for Henry IV with great pomp on September 16, 1610 in the Basilica of San Lorenzo. Having recently succeeded his father Ferdinando I to the throne, the new Grand Duke had an important funeral held in effigy for the "most Christian King". This decision was part of the consolidated practise that, as of the sixteenth century, saw the Medici family, rulers of Florence, show their political influence in Europe also with scenographic productions tied to the family events of the principal dynasties: births, weddings and deaths. The paintings were arranged along the walls of the church, entirely decked in mourning, but scenographically illuminated by a great number of candles, with elements evoking the King's triumphs and virtues, so as to perpetuate his glory beyond death. Executed by a till then little known pleiad of painters and artists who trained under Empoli, Curradi and Poccetti, the paintings had subjects dictated by historians and men of letters, and dealt with episodes in which the Medici had played an important role. The exhibition in the two venues is of great, though slightly differentiated importance, for intuitable reasons of communication. While the figure of Henry IV is very clear for Navarre, the same can not be said for Florence, where a didacticpresentazione will be necessary. A part of the exhibition will therefore be dedicated to the Medici and the family politics which saw Maria, granddaughter of Ferdinando I, marry Henry IV in 1600 and, following the assassination of the King, assume the regency of France for the dauphin. With the magnificence of the funeral ceremony celebrated in Florence, the Medici court emphasised the legitimacy of that regency and of the succession to the throne of Louis XIII. In addition to the paintings, the show will also present books, engravings and drawings for the celebration, the Medici family tree, medals of the principal figures tied to the episode, wedding documents, precious portraits of the King and Queen in painting and sculpture, and a magnificent drawing by Pieter Paul Rubens with Maria de' Medici Landing at Marseilles, executed as a model for the cycle in the Luxembourg Palace, which Maria commissioned the painter between 1622 and 1624. The installation by the technicians of the Soprintendenza and those of the Musée de Pau will be evocative and respectful of the characteristics of the two venues. Website <a href='http://www.villaolmiresort.com' title='hotel villa olmi'>www.villaolmiresort.com</a>News and Activitieshttp://villaolmiresort.com/hotel-firenze-en-247.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. 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