PISTOIA – The initiatives continue over the weekend between 3 and 5 May Spring at the museum, curated by the Civic Museums of Pistoia. In the context of Revox Public Programsa new in-depth look at the exhibition Revox by Federico Tiezzi. From Portraits of the End of the Millennium (1986) to Vasari. The Lives (2021-2023)underway at Palazzo Fabroni, is on the program Friday 3 May, at 5pmin the Nigro room on the first floor of the Museum of the Twentieth Century and the Contemporary of Palazzo Fabroni (via Sant’Andrea 18), with the conference by Andrea De Marchi by title Paolo Uccello, “sophisticated and subtle ingenuity”. One of the video portraits displayed in the exhibition is dedicated to the Florentine painter and has become part of the permanent collection of Palazzo Fabroni thanks to the PAC2021 – Plan for Contemporary Art promoted by the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.
Giorgio Vasari places the Life of Paulo Uccello at the beginning of the second age, but in an immature position, between Jacopo della Quercia and Lorenzo Ghiberti, before the exemplary Lives of Masaccio, Brunelleschi and Donatello, who fully embodied the new art of the fifteenth century. Paolo di Dono, known as Paolo Uccello, is for him an ambiguous and essentially unresolved artist, “bizarre and capricious”, “endowed with a sophisticated ingenuity”, lost in “whims”. His art, even in its most grandiose achievements, such as the Deluge of the green cloister of Santa Maria Novella or the Battles of San Romano, conceals a dreamy and artificial streak, the roots of which are well understood by investigating its formation still in a late Gothic climate, between Ghiberti and Venice, reconstructing its early history starting from the frescoes in the provost’s office in Prato.
Andrea de’ Marchi he is full professor of History of Medieval Art at the University of Florence. Specializing in Italian painting between the 13th and 16th centuries, he has written numerous contributions, essays and monographs, curating multiple exhibitions, including “Verrocchio, the master of Leonardo” (Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 2019), and the ongoing “The Enigma of master of San Francesco. The stil novo of the Umbrian thirteenth century” (Perugia, National Gallery of Umbria, 10 March – 9 June 2024), “Empoli 1424. Masolino and the dawn of the Renaissance” (Empoli, Museum of the Collegiate Church of Sant’Andrea and the Church of Santo Stefano, 6 April – 7 July 2024).
Entrance to the conference is free until all available places are filled.
Sunday 5 Mayfirst Sunday of the month, is domenicalmuseo , the initiative of the Ministry of Culture which provides free entry to museums and places of culture. They can, therefore, also visit the Civic Museums of Pistoia for free (Civic Museum of Ancient Art in the Town Hall, Museum of the Spedale del Ceppo and Museum of the Twentieth Century and Contemporary in Palazzo Fabroni) and the exhibition Revox by Federico Tiezziopen to the public continuously from 10am to 6pm.
Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th May from 3pm to 6pm, the students of the linguistic high school of the ITSC Pacini, participants in the PCTO project “Ambassadors of Art”, are available to visitors of the Civic Museum of ancient art in the Palazzo Comunale, of the Spedale del Ceppo Museum and of the Museum of the Twentieth Century and Contemporary of Palazzo Fabroni for free guided tours, also in foreign languages, of the museum locations and collections.
Always Saturday and Sunday you can also visit the church of San Jacopo in Castellare, open to the public from 10am to 6pm with free entry (up to a maximum of 50 people). In collaboration with the Caript Foundation and the Pistoia Musei Foundation.
