Series of lectures on Michelangelo and the Florentine yard

And 'the 28 January 1504, when the seat of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence meets a commission of artists who will have to decide the destination of Michelangelo's David.

Meeting will take, among others, Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, Pietro Perugino, Giuliano and Antonio da Sangallo, Simone del Pollaiuolo, Andrea della Robbia, Davide Ghirlandaio.

The committee decides to place the sculpture in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, instead of the Florence Cathedral for which it was originally designed.

Il David will be the topic of the first meeting, held by Cristina Acidini, per il ciclo di conferenze “Michelangelo. The yard Florentine "scheduled on Tuesdays at 17, organized by the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the death of the great artist.

There are numerous, In fact, the architectural, sculptural, pictorial and graphic of Michelangelo in Florence – that constitute a corpus of documents of absolute magnitude – distributed between the Basilica of San Lorenzo, the Laurentian Library, Museum del'Accademia, il Bargello Museum, The Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, the Uffizi and the Casa Buonarroti.

The conference will be an opportunity to take stock of the studies, assess the state of conservation, investigate the restoration, deepen and rethink plants philological works, disclose the connections and relationships with their time.

All lectures, free admission, will be held in the Art and Culture Center of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (Piazza San Giovanni 7, Florence), starting at 17.

The 23 September Francesco Gurrieri, coordinator of the series of conferences, address the issue of the Yard architectural Laurentian.

The 30 settembre Bruno Santi parlerà de La Pietà.

The 7 October Alessandra Marino and Restoration Factory Michelangelo.

The 14 ottobre Antonio Natali con il Tondo Doni.

The 21 October Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, with Bacchus of the Bargello.

The 28 ottobre Pietro Ruschi con i Disegni di Casa Buonarroti.

The 4 novembre Mons. Timothy Verdon con Spiritualità e Pietas nella scultura di Michelangelo.

L’11 novembre Antonio Paolucci con le ultime cure alla Cappella Sistina.

Nicola Nuti

By the number 31 – The Year of 17/09/2014