The Uffizi pays tribute to Charles Baudelaire on the 200th anniversary of his birth

The Uffizi pays tribute to Charles Baudelaire (Paris, 1821 - 1867) on the two hundredth anniversary of his birth with a video that will be released on the museum’s social channels starting April 9, the date of the great French poet’s birth. In the video, one of the best-known poems from the collection Les Fleurs du Mal, theOde to Beauty, will be interpreted on Facebook tomorrow by former French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti, a writer who is now a board member of the Galleries. The verses will accompany a clip of a sculpture from the Gallery of Modern Art in the Pitti Palace, the sensual Nuda by Domenico Trentacoste (Palermo, 1859 - Florence, 1933).

The Hymn to Beauty is a poem about the ambiguous and intoxicating nature of Beauty, and will be recited over the flexuously shaped forms of Trentacoste’s female nude. In the video, with piano and string music in the background, the black-and-white images of the Nude Female Figure in Plaster (circa 1910) made by the Sicilian sculptor and housed in the Gallery of Modern Art in the Pitti Palace will flow: the glorious and tender body of a young woman, exposed in all its dangerous fragility. The clip will also be published, in abbreviated form and without subtitles, on the museum’s Instagram profile. Finally, also tomorrow, an article dedicated to the drawings, kept in the Gallery’s Prints Cabinet, by artist Giulia Napoleone for a 1996 limited edition of Les Fleurs du Mal will be published in the Uffizi Online Magazine(Lorenzo Gherlandini, Giulia Napoleone’s Les Fleurs du Mal. Homage to Baudelaire).

The Uffizi pays tribute to Charles Baudelaire on the 200th anniversary of his birth

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