Saturday 15 June 2024 – 08.45
The official ceremony for the delivery of the Golden Pegasus to the scholar and art critic, as well as teacher, Mina Gregoriwhich received recognition from the hands of the president of Tuscany Eugenio Giani.
“I hand over the golden Pegasus to a great art scholar – said Giani – who he taught how to educate the eye to read the work of artto 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”.
Gregori, born in Cremona but Florentine by adoption, has explored the worlds of creativity and intelligence figurative art but also of literature and of music. Director of over one hundred exhibitions around the world, her one on Caravaggio and the Caravaggeschi remains memorable, which earned her the nickname “Caravaggio’s lady“. To this are also added those on Seventeenth-century Florentine It is on Renaissance. AtUniversity of Florencewhere she taught for a long time, she also became a full professor of medieval and modern art history.
Delivery took place at Palazzo Strozzi Sacrati, seat of the presidency 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 too Cristina Acidinipresident of the Longhi Foundation, who took over from Gregori, who is currently honorary president.
“I am very grateful – said 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“.
