Filippo Brunelleschi. Man in the future: theatrical performance staged in Florence

The Church of Santa Verdiana in Florence on Thursday, Sept. 27 and Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 at 9 p.m. hosts the national premiere of the play"Filippo Brunelleschi. Man in the Future."

The event is part of the event"Nel Chiostro delle Geometrie" and is entrusted to the Compagnia Teatro Studio Krypton.
The original dramaturgy is by Giancarlo Di Giovine, the lead actor is Roberto Visconti directed by Giancarlo Cauteruccio.

The latter celebrates in this play one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance, analyzing his life, character and artistic activity: according to the investigation of Brunelleschi, he destroyed his texts, built extraordinary machines whose secrets he did not reveal, and was a prince of the arts.

Di Giovine said, "We know everything about Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, the great artists of the Renaissance, we know much less about the life of Filippo Brunelleschi, however. Yet Brunelleschi anticipates these artists, prepares them, directs them to the new path, without teaching them anything or leaving them anything. He destroys his texts or uses secret codes to prevent them from being copied, just as Leonardo will do, patents his designs, builds extraordinary machines whose secret mechanisms he does not reveal even to his clients.His talent is complete, it finds no boundaries, as Leonardo’s will be.He ranges from architecture to sculpture, devotes himself to the study of the cosmos and on request does not disdain to devote himself even to the art of war.

What he leaves us are not only domes, cathedrals and loggias, it is above all an idea of the city and an idea of the world that sees at its center the human. It is an idea that comes from afar, from the harmonies and proportions of the temples of Ancient Rome, which Brunelleschi recovers and perfects. Through the use of perspective the architect can elaborate a new kind of beauty, no longer dictated by chance, shadow and faith, but by reason, calculation, mathematics, light. Gothic is dead, the Renaissance style is born. The artist has to distinguish himself from the bourgeois merchants, he does not have to think about the trades, about the family, he has to put himself at the service of the nobles but only to seek their protection and to be able to realize his works thanks to their florins. In this way he loses that sacred and mysterious aura of the anonymous builder who with his confraternity erected shadowy cathedrals according to rules handed down in silence and becomes a prince of the arts who signs his works and carries his name through the centuries."

For info: www.teatrostudiokrypton.it

Free admission.

Filippo Brunelleschi. Man in the future: theatrical performance staged in Florence

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