The Signorinis and their Florence. Tuscan landscape painting by father and son on display.

Palazzo Antinori, a historic building in the heart of the Tuscan capital, will open its doors to the public to allow visitors to admire for the first time the historic halls of the piano nobile and the works on display in these rooms. From September 19 to November 10, 2019, in fact, the Palazzo will host the exhibition The Florence of Giovanni and Telemaco Signorini, conceived and curated by Elisabetta Matteucci and Silvio Balloni following the discovery of the unpublished correspondence between Telemaco Signorini, his father Giovanni and younger brother Paolo. Protagonists of this review will therefore be the Signorini family and their Florence.

The exhibition aims to present the ancestry of Giovanni Signorini, nicknamed the FlorentineCanaletto by Leopold II of Lorraine, on his son Telemaco and to document the evolution of landscape painting in Tuscany, from late Romantic depiction to the modern figurative aesthetics of the Macchiaioli, of which Telemaco was one of the leading exponents.

The eight sections of the exhibition will show more than sixty of Giovanni and Telemaco Signorini’s most famous paintings flanked by comparisons with works by Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, Pietro Giordani and Niccolò Tommaseo, Diego Martelli and Carlo Lorenzini.

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tickets: Full 13 euros, reduced 10 euros.

Image: Telemaco Signorini, Mercato vecchio (1882-1883; oil on canvas, 39 x 65.5 cm)

The Signorinis and their Florence. Tuscan landscape painting by father and son on display.

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