Villa Bardini dedicates an exhibition to Queen Elizabeth II of England

Villa Bardini in Florence is hosting a tribute exhibition to Queen Elizabeth II of England in the rooms of the museum dedicated to Pietro Annigoni (Milan, 1910 - Florence, 1988), author of the most famous portrait of the sovereign. Homage to the Queen will be open to the public from October 20, 2022 to January 31, 2023, and will exhibit one of the three official replicas of the famous portrait of the sovereign that Pietro Annigoni made between 1954 and 1955 (you can read the article dedicated to the famous portrait at this link ), along with other materials related to the work.

Promoted by Fondazione CR Firenze and Fondazione Parchi Monumentali Bardini e Peyron and curated by Emanuele Barletti, the exhibition will present about four hundred objects, including books, magazines and newspapers from theperiod, photographs, postage stamps, coins and banknotes, and commemorative objects, through which it is intended to reconstruct both the relationship between Annigoni and the queen and the transposition of the portrait into the public narrative of real life, achieved thanks to the rich historical documentation in the Annigoni Fund of the Historical Archives of the Fondazione CR Firenze and thanks to loans from private collections.

In the painting on display at Villa Bardini, Queen Elizabeth II, who ascended the throne just a few years earlier in 1952, appears as a young woman at the beginning of her long reign. The portrait has over the years become a symbolic image of the sovereign, and because of this it has been reproduced and applied in a wide variety of objects, such as mugs, plates, stamps, coins, and proposed on historical occasions such as the 50th anniversary of her coronation or even the 2002 Golden Jubilee. Heirlooms that are displayed in the exhibition and reconstruct a cross-section of society in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Image: Pietro Annigoni, Portrait of Elizabeth II of England, detail (1955; tempera, oil and ink on paper, 182.9 x 121.9 cm; London, Fishmongers’ Hall)

Villa Bardini dedicates an exhibition to Queen Elizabeth II of England

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