The last act of “Arts in dialogue”, the cycle of four meetings dedicated to the great female personalities of Villa La Quiete, ends with a tribute to Anna Maria Luisa de’Medici, the Electress Palatine, through a proposal conceived and curated from Teresa Megaledelegate of the rector of the University of Florence for entertainment activities, with the collaboration of Donatella Pegazzano, professor of Museology at the University. The initiative saw painting meet with music and theater in the symbolic and evocative places of the Medici complex.
The appointment is scheduled Friday 21 June, at 5pm, at Villa La Quiete (free entry in Via di Boldrone 2, Florence – reservation required, via email to [email protected]).
The event will open with the presentation of Taddeo Mazzi’s work “The Education of the Virgin” by Raffaele Niccoli Vallesi. The curator will illustrate the canvas, dating back to 1725, which portrays the Electress Palatine in the guise of Saint Anne, mother of Mary, while she teaches her daughter to read. The painting was commissioned by the Montalve nuns to thank their benefactress.
The afternoon continues with the performance “Le ancille della Quiete” created by the actors of “Binario di Scambio”, the University Theater Company (performers: Elettra Mafalda Acerbi, Lapo Bicchierai, Eleonora Famà, Scilla Lamberti, Alessandro Nesti, Tatiana Paramonova, Francesco Prospero, Beatrice Rizzelli and Alessandro Zurlo) directed by Stefania Stefanin.
The staging is interspersed with the performance of three musicians from the University of Florence Orchestra (Alessandro Salvadori, flute; Maria Sastre Hernandez, clarinet; Leonardo Trono, bassoon) who will offer the public a “Concerto in G Minor RV 103” by Antonio Vivaldi.
Through Arts in Dialogue, in the spaces of the museum complex, the voices of the great female figures who marked its past have resonated: before Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, Eleonora Ramírez de Montalvo, Rovere victory, Christina of Lorraine. In each appointment, visitors were accompanied by readings and mise en éspace, commented and interspersed with live music. An engaging and exciting operation, which involved thirty-five young students in organizing the meetings and which always received wide response from the public.
The poster is available online
