An exhibition at the Uffizi recounts the art of Elisabetta Sirani

On the second floor of the Uffizi Galleries, precisely in the Edoardo Detti Room and the Fireplace Room, it is possible to visit from March 6 to June 10, 2018 the exhibition Painting and Drawing “as a grand master”: the talent of Elisabetta Sirani (Bologna, 1638-1665).

Thirty-four works from public and private Italian collections, except forSelf-Portrait as Allegory of Painting from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, illustrate the art of Elisabetta Sirani, a Bolognese painter who, despite her short life (she died at just twenty-seven), was very productive artistically.

As the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt, states, “Sirani’s glorious dimension does not lie in the fact that she was a woman artist, and a talented one at that, as much as in the always sustained quality of her production.”

Her art was"grandmaster-like": in her production, both graphic and pictorial, one notices a great ease and confidence in execution; moreover, another gift of the painter was her prodigious speed of execution.The Bolognese Carlo Cesare Malvasia, a few years after Sirani’s untimely death, said that the painter was greatly appreciated for the “gracefulness without striving, and grace without affectation” of her creations. She used black or red stone or brush and diluted ink to execute them.

The exhibition is curated by Roberta Aliventi and Laura Da Rin Bettina with scientific coordination by Marzia Faietti. At the behest of director Eike Schmidt and all Uffizi colleagues, the exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Davide Astori, the Fiorentina captain who died prematurely on March 4, 2018 at the age of 31.

For more details: www.uffizi.it

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 8:15 a.m. to 6:50 p.m. (ticket office closes at 6:05 p.m.). Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 20 euros, reduced 10 euros for E.U. citizens aged 18 to 25. Free for children under 18, handicapped persons with accompanying person, journalists, teachers and students of Architecture, Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Educational Science, Bachelor of Arts degree with archaeological or historical-artistic degree addresses, Bachelor of Arts degree or corresponding courses in EU member states, Italian teachers with fixed-term and open-ended contracts in service at a public or equal school in the country.

Image: Elisabetta Sirani (Bologna, 1638-1665), Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist (1664; oil on canvas; Pesaro, Municipality of Pesaro, Musei Civici - Palazzo Mosca)

An exhibition at the Uffizi recounts the art of Elisabetta Sirani

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