Florence’s city museums have made a joint resolution for 2014: nine temporary exhibitions to be held in Florence’s leading state-owned museums as part of the eighth Un anno ad arte (A year of Art) initiative.
The exhibitions include a tribute to Michelangelo, 450 years after his death, at the Accademia gallery (from February 18); a retrospective on sculptor Baccio Bandinelli, at the Bargello (from April 9); a look at the holy splendours of the Chapel of the Relics at the Pitti Palace (from May 20); an exhibition focused on Jacopo Ligozzi, at the Palatine Gallery (from May 27); a survey of the history of collecting in Italy from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, at the Accademia gallery (from June 24); and a celebration of the pure, simple and natural in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, at the Uffizi from June 17.
From January 28 in the Palatine Gallery at the Pitti Palace, visitors will be able to admire 133 paper treasures from Florence’s archives and libraries, including the first issue of Mickey Mouse and sketches by Michelangelo Buonarroti. From February 11, the Uffizi’s Room of the Muses will hold a display of the collection of celebrated, Bologna-born composer and conductor Francesco Molinari Pradelli, who travelled the world collecting works of art.
An app for iPhone and Android has been developed to provide comprehensive information about the exhibitions of Un anno ad arte: see (in Italian) theflr.net/ax0ol4.
