Florence Biennale of Antiques: here are some preview works

The Florence Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato, which will open at Palazzo Corsini next Sept. 23, today announced some of the highlights that will be on display in the original installation curated by designer and set designer Matteo Corvino (it promises, in particular, to be an installation devoted to “modernity” and “elegance,” as the press release states). There will be pieces that will go all the way back to the 1980s: a choice, explains curator Fabrizio Moretti, that aims to ratify “the trend, evident in all the major events in the sector worldwide, which intends to favor a Collecting that has shown that it loves the mixture of works from very different periods, from archaeology to the contemporary, passing through all the great moments in the history of universal art.”

Here, then, are some previews. The Michel Descours Gallery will bring a painting by Pietro Paolini, The Portrait of Theater Actor Tiberio Fiorilli as Scaramouche, which belonged to Tiberio Fiorilli’s own brother. A selection of drawings by Gustav Klimt (including a study for Salome) will be the highlights of the W&K - Wienerroither & Kohlbacher gallery. Frascione Arte will instead present a Study of a Manly Nude by Tintoretto. Galleria Alberto di Castro will offer a group of unpublished drawings (these are preparatory sketches for the execution of a frieze for the bronze bell of St. Peter’s Basilica) from the workshop of Luigi Valadier. Again, we will have a Portrait of Orazio Piccolomini, a work by Justus Suttermans (from the Lumina Gallery) that belonged to Vittoria della Rovere, a Battle between Greeks and Romans by Livio Mehus, exhibited by Llull Pampoulides (at his first participation in the Biennale), a Rest during the Flight into Egypt by Orazio Samacchini (from the Cantore Gallery), a Portrait of Anatoli Demidov on Horseback by Karl Brjullov (Berardi Gallery).

The section devoted to sculpture is also very large: we will have a St. John the Evangelist by Giovanni Angelo del Maino (Meheringer Benappi), a Virtue Overcoming Vice by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi (Giovanni Pratesi), a terracotta by Benedetto Buglioni depicting a Christ the Redeemer and dated 1510-1520 (Botticelli Gallery), a Ganymede and the Eagle by Massimiliano Soldani (Tomasso Brothers), a marble depicting Sleeping Endymion attributed to Aristodemus Costoli (Carlo Virgilio Gallery). Space is also given to objects and furnishings: a cameo, brought by Dario Ghio, with a bust of Louis XIV owned in ancient times by the Marchioness of Pompadour (who would have also chiseled it: it is therefore a work of great interest), a pair of Venetian sofas with floral motifs from the second half of the 18th century will be brought to the Biennale by Piva & C., and a pair of bedside tables of Roman ambit from the mid-18th century will arrive from the Alessandra di Castro Gallery. Finally, a final curiosity: a Verona marble secret denunciation pit from the 17th century that will be presented at the Biennale by Galleria Apolloni of Rome.

The Florence Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato will be open from Sept. 23 to Oct. 1, daily, 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. (except Thursday, Sept. 28: 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.). Ticket: 15 euros full price, 10 euros reduced.

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Florence Biennale of Antiques: here are some preview works

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