The exhibition "Arti in dialogo. Echi tardo barocchi nelle sculture del Museo Ginori”
Organized by the Museo Ginori and the University of Florence, the exhibition is scheduled at Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi until February 17, 2023.
Organized by the Museo Ginori and the University of Florence, the exhibition is scheduled at Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi until February 17, 2023.
The exhibition “Arti in dialogo. Echi tardo barocchi nelle sculture del Museo Ginori” was inaugurated today in the magnificent rooms of Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi. The ceremony was attended by the Deputy Rector of the University of Florence Giovanni Tarli Barbieri, the President of the Fondazione Ginori Tomaso Montanari, and the Regional Director of Museums of Tuscany Stefano Casciu, together with Fulvio Cervini, Deputy Director of the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Art and Performance (Sagas) of the University of Florence, and the exhibition curators Cristiano Giometti (University of Florence), Andrea Di Lorenzo (Museo Ginori) and Rita Balleri (Museo Ginori).
“The happiest aspect of this occasion – stated Tomaso Montanari, President of the Fondazione Museo Archivio Richard Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia – is that two art places usually inaccessible to the majority of citizens of Florence and the world (namely the rooms of Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi, extraordinary for the paintings by Sebastiano Ricci and the stuccoes by Baratta, and the Museo Ginori, closed awaiting renovation) become visible again, intertwining and telling, through what is now displayed in museums, the broader context of what is instead still alive and embedded in a palace visited daily by many young women and men who study here. It is a sign of vitality and also a promise for the future close collaboration between the University and the Museum, which share the same mission: research, production of knowledge, and its redistribution. I am very grateful to my colleague Rector Alessandra Petrucci and to the director of the SAGAS Department Paolo Liverani, to Cristiano Giometti, and to all the art history colleagues at the University of Florence.”
“The exhibition Arti in dialogo – stated Cristiano Giometti – is an important opportunity that marks the beginning of the collaboration with the Museo Ginori and offers the chance to open to the public the monumental rooms of Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi hosting the magnificent decorative cycle by Sebastiano Ricci and Giovanni Baratta. We all hope to be able to start a path of protection and enhancement of these rooms, masterpieces of late Baroque European art.”
“The opportunity to see terracottas, waxes, and porcelains from the Museo Ginori displayed and in dialogue with the beautiful and unknown 18th-century rooms of Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi – stated Stefano Casciu, Regional Director of Museums of Tuscany – is a must both to admire the quality and beauty of the works purchased or created by the Manifattura Ginori in accordance with the wishes of the Founder, Marquis Carlo Ginori, and to discover one of the most beautiful Rococo contexts of Florence, a jewel that I hope can soon return to wider public accessibility.”
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