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The Springtime of the Renaissance. Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400-60Palazzo Strozzi, 23 March-18 August 2013If you book, only on our website, and you will visit Palazzo Strozzi Exhibition, we'll refund you the tickets, like discount on your Hotel Rate.Please visit www.palazzostrozzi.org |
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Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists For more details about the exhibition please check the following www.palazzostrozzi.org The exhibition comprises a reflection on the work of artists who use fantasy, imagination and dreams to build alternative worlds to the increasingly complex reality of life today. Some condense the essence of reality into miniaturised systems while others expand outwards into space, and yet others feed on fantastic, dreamlike images or reflect on such symbolic themes as the home and the family, or the mass media imagery, which play even today a central role in the construction of the myth of the American way of life. CONDITIONS
» Visit Palazzo Strozzi Official Website In 2012, exactly 500 years since the death of Amerigo Vespucci, Florence will be marking this event with an exhibition designed to celebrate the strong ties linking the Old World and the New, and the cosmopolitan ambiance that bound the city to the New World for ever, transmitting European culture and sophistication to America. The exhibition explores the American impressionists' relationship with Italy, and with Florence in particular, in the decades spanning the close of the 19th and dawn of the 20th centuries. There was a marked upswing in the number of American artists travelling to Europe after the Civil War ended in 1865, and the trend continued on into the early 20th century. Hundreds of painters came to Paris and other parts of France while others studied in Germany, with England, Holland and Spain being other favourite locations. Italy, however, was an inescapable pole of attraction for most of them. Florence, Venice and Rome had been at the heart of the Grand tour for centuries and had become legendary for all those eager to study the art of the past, quite apart from their appeal in terms of the climate, the countryside, the people, and the overall atmosphere prevailing in them. For the first time since recent
exhibitions in France and England explored these American artists' relationship
with those two countries, this exhibition will be hosting the work of American
painters who embraced the artistic vocabulary of Impressionism and spent time in
Italy. |
