Livorno After the reorganization of the “Contemporary Art” section, inaugurated in January, the City Museum announces the Ancient, Medieval and Modern section.
A fraction planned in the final part of the Bottini dell’Olio, while in the initial part there will be space for temporary exhibitions.
«We wanted to preserve what we already had in the past, while building something different – says the scientific director of the museum Paolo Cova – Identifying a new path to follow. The City Museum which becomes to all intents and purposes a multifunctional reality also from the point of view of the displays”. The project is presented by him, Giovanni Cerini, municipal manager of cultural activities, prof Vincenzo Farinella, historian Lucia Frattarelli Fischer and Nicola Molea.
«The new section – continues the director – is a journey that winds through ancient history, in the archaeological part (with fundamental works from the donation by Enrico Chiellini, between the Iron Age, Etruscan and Roman), allows us to tell the story of the territory, but with links and connections to other contexts”. Then the medieval hamlet. «On the one hand the tables, with the aim of building a history of art in Livorno; but also a small introductory segment on Christianity, with relics and objects.” A space that collects the frescoes from the Sambuca hermitage. Then the polyptych by Alvaro Pirez and the Crucifixion of Neri di Bicci. Hence modernity. «A universe divided into two areas: the genesis of the Medici city, what happens in the 16th century and which leads to something completely new; and then the city of nations: the materials already present in the past, rearranged, with strong critical keys, and ensuring that each reality represented can have connections with situations external to the museum and with the widespread heritage of the city”.
The journey ends with a twentieth-century portion, from the end of the First World War to the 1990s. «An entire wall – explains Cova – will be dedicated to the history of female emancipation, leveraging the work of extraordinary scholars». The types of light panels, and the speaking captions in Italian and English, are similar to those already in use in the contemporary section. There will be important technological enrichments, and a multipurpose room for teaching. Another beautiful novelty concerns the granaries of Villa Mimbelli, inside which (in the right wing on the first floor), a permanent exhibition will be set up which completes the cultural offering: it will concern the fundamental link between Livorno and the Medici family, with the collection of the Anna Maria Luisa De’ Medici Foundation. A copious collection: paintings, drawings, coins, engravings, medals and a large portion of paper. L
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