Show on Michelangelo until 28 December

Close with the exhibition "The immortality of a myth - The legacy of Michelangelo in the arts and teaching academics in Florence from the sixteenth century to the contemporary" celebrations for the anniversary of the founding 450mo Academy of Art and Design and the death of Michelangelo Buonarroti, that the centuries-old Florentine institution was the first academic.

Scheduled until Sunday 28 December at the Exhibition Hall of the Academy of Art and Design (Via Ricasoli, 68 – Florence – times: 10/13 – 17/19 - Judgment 10/13 - Closed Monday - free entry) The exhibition is curated by Professors Sandro Bellesi and Francesca Petrucci Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and is organized with the support of the Gallery Duomo Carrara, sponsored by the Foundation for the Study of Art History Roberto Longhi and in collaboration with distinguished scholars, collectors and antique dealers.

Una sinergia che ha permesso di intendere “L’immortalità di un mito” come una sorta di rievocazione della Mostra Michelangiolesca organizzata nel 1875 in the gallery of the Academy for the fourth centenary of the birth, concurred that public institutions and private.

It was then that the Academy of Fine Arts decided to make plaster casts of the most famous marble artist or their particular: among others, the "Dying Slave", la "Madonna di Bruges", "Pietà Rondanini", the "Head of Giuliano de 'Medici", the "Taddei Tondo", that we find in this exhibition along with unpublished portraits and sculptures in the coming centuries and clearly inspired by the stylistic and iconographic formulas of Michelangelo: as the "Head of Bacchus" by Baccio Bandinelli, the "Neptune" by Giovan Angelo Montorsoli, l '"Apostle" by Vincenzo Danti, l '"Arno" and "Tiber" by Giuseppe Piamontini, the "Sleeping Cupid" by Joachim Fortini, the "Spinario" by Lorenzo Bartolini, "Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna and some literati" Philip Bigioli and "Michelangelo with the model of Moses" Hadrian Cecioni.

The actuality of the myth and its persistence turn out in the last section, which displays tutorials for students of the School of Painting, led by Professor Adriano Bimbi, in front of the marble of the New Sacristy, and new medals Michelangelo created by the students of the School of Sculpture, with the direction of the teachers Stefano and Francesca Patti Taliani. Along with these works is also an engraving of a student of Laura Zanobini, professor of engraving techniques.

Absolute value of the catalog of the exhibition - and. Edifir, by Sandro Bellesi and Francesca Petrucci - where are collected twenty essays by well-known specialists on the binding of Florentine artists (and not only) with Michelangelo.

Cecilia Latches

By the number 44 – The Year of 17/12/2014

The immortality of a myth – L’eredità di Michelangelo
Until Sunday 28 December 2014
Academy of Art and Design – Via Ricasoli, 68 – Florence
Hours: 10/13 – 17/19 (Sunday 10/13) - Closed Monday
Free admission