Florence 2015 A Year in Art. A list of all exhibitions in Florentine museums

Once again this year, the complete program of Florence 2015 A Year in Art has been presented: the exhibitions that will be hosted in the museums of the Polo Museale Fiorentino. Now in its tenth edition, it is an initiative that aims, as it does every year, to involve the largest number of visitors, presenting a wide and varied review to satisfy everyone’s different artistic interests. The monographs dedicated to Gherardo delle Notti, Piero di Cosimo, Carlo Dolci and Carlo Portelli stand out, the first two of which will be hosted in the Uffizi Gallery, while the others will be hosted respectively in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti and the Academy Gallery. Also of note on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Florence Capital and the Bargello Foundation are The Middle Ages on a Journey at the Bargello National Museum and Florence Capital 1865-2015 at the Gallery of Modern Art.

Let’s see below the complete program of the exhibitions, in chronological order starting from the date of the opening:

1. Gherardo delle Notti. Bizarre Paintings and Merry Dinners, a monographic exhibition dedicated to Gerrit Honthorst, known as Gherardo delle Notti, in which his presence in Italy in the early seventeenth century will be emphasized, with greater emphasis on the Florentine reception that allowed four of his great works to be in the Medici collections. Also featured will be works by other painters from the Netherlands who, like him, favored candle-lit nocturnal scenes (Feb. 10 to May 24 at the Uffizi Gallery)
2. The Middle Ages on the Road. Exhibition on theoccasion of the 150th anniversary of Florence Capital and the founding of the Bargello, a review of artistic testimonies and objects d’so that present the theme of travel in the real and the fantastic against the backdrop of medieval civilization. The exhibition is in collaboration with other European museums (March 20 to June 21 at the Bargello National Museum)
3. The Art of Francis. Masterpieces of Art and Lands of Asia from the 13th to 15th Centuries, an exhibition dedicated to Franciscanism, one of the greatest religious and cultural phenomena of the West and the world, which spread as far as the East (March 30 to Oct. 11 at the Accademia Gallery)
4. Lapis Lazuli. Magic of Blue, an exhibition dedicated to the blue stone that was used to create precious objects and to evoke in pictorial works the supreme spheres of heaven and divinity: Lapis lazuli (June 9 to Oct. 11 at the Museo degli Argenti)
5. Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522). Eccentric Florentine Painter between Renaissance and Mannerism, a monographic exhibition dedicated to the eccentric Florentine painter to whom we are indebted for very singular paintings, such as the Stories of Primitive Humanity (June 22 to Sept. 27 at the Uffizi Gallery)
6. Carlo Dolci, a monographic exhibition dedicated to the painter of the 17th-century Florentine court. His painting is characterized by beauty and luminosity and therefore put at the service of sacred images (June 30 to Nov. 15 at the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti)
7. Florence Capital 1865-2015. TheKing’s Gifts and Collections, an exhibition that, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Florence Capital, will be dedicated to the works and furnishings acquired by King Victor Emmanuel II for the palace of Palazzo Pitti during his stay in the city (Nov. 19 to April 3, 2016 at the Gallery of Modern Art)
8. Carlo Portelli. Painter of Valor, a monographic exhibition dedicated to Carlo Portelli, another eccentric Florentine in constant pursuit of elegance and refinement, but who introduced crowds of characters and a multitude of foreshortenings in his paintings ( from Dec. 14 to April 17, 2016 at the Galleria dell’Accademia)

On the occasion of EXPO2015, exhibition initiatives dedicated to EXPO themes will be organized, thus concerning the food chain, the agrarian landscape, and the genteel or popular canteen.

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