Florence, 14 June 2024 – “I hand over the golden Pegasus to a great art scholar, who taught a educate the eye to read the work of art, to recognize and love beauty, to convey new and sometimes difficult opinions for the world of culture and art which live their excellence in Florence and Tuscany”. Thus the president Eugenio Giani paying tribute to Mina Gregori, art critic, teacher and scholar of international fame, the highest recognition of the Tuscany Region. The delivery ceremony took place today in Palazzo Strozzi Sacrati, seat of the president of the Tuscany Region, where Professor Gregori was accompanied by one of her nieces, Sandra Bandera, and the deputy mayor of the Municipality of Florence. In the audience, among the authorities, the president of the Longhi Foundation, Cristina Acidini who took over from Mina Gregori who is now honorary president. Connected via video from Cremona, the hometown of Professor Gregori, the other niece, Maria Cristina Bandera. “I am very grateful – said Mina Gregori, who turned one hundred years old in March, receiving the recognition – your presence demonstrates all the affection and esteem you have for me. We all have the same ideals and we all aspire to the good of our country. Thanks again.” Mina Gregori, Cremonese by birth and Florentine by choice, direct heir to the lessons of Roberto Longhi, has ranged with creativity and intelligence in the worlds of figurative art but also of literature and music which, she claims, fills life and is among all the arts the most complete form. Director of over one hundred exhibitions in the world, her one on Caravaggio and the Caravaggeschi remains memorable, which earned her the nickname “the lady of Caravaggio”, as she is among the greatest experts on Michelangelo Merisi. The exhibition on the Florentine seventeenth century is also fundamental. And again, with the great exhibition on the Renaissance in Athens which enhanced the classical roots of Italian art. His figure as a scholar is of international stature and yet is deeply rooted in Florence, where he taught for a long time at the University until he became full professor of medieval and modern art history, training countless students. In his career as an art historian and teacher Mina Gregori has always favored the eye: to know a historian he must be able to “see”. It is the eye that transmits the message of figurative works to us. The art historian must therefore put museums before libraries and direct viewing of works before photographs because if you start from the work it will also tell you about its context. This in summary is the key message of his teaching.
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