Mina Gregori receives the Golden Pegasus from the Region of Tuscany

Art historian Mina Gregori was awarded the Pegaso d’Oro, the highest honor of the Region of Tuscany. The ceremony was held yesterday in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi Sacrati, the seat of the presidency of the Region of Tuscany. Professor Gregori was accompanied by her niece Sandra Bandera and the deputy mayor of Florence. Among the authorities in the audience was Cristina Acidini, president of the Longhi Foundation and successor to Mina Gregori, now honorary president. Connected by video from Cremona, Professor Gregori’s hometown, was her other niece Maria Cristina Bandera.

A Cremonese by birth and Florentine by choice, Mina Gregori, who turned 100 last March, is a direct heir to the lessons of Roberto Longhi. She has creatively and intelligently explored the worlds of figurative art, literature and music, which she calls the most complete art form. Curator of more than a hundred exhibitions in the world, starting with the one on Caravaggio and the Caravaggesque painters, held in Florence between 2010 and 2011: in fact, Mina Gregori is one of the greatest experts on Michelangelo Merisi. Also crucial were the exhibitions on seventeenth-century Florence and the Renaissance in Athens, which emphasized the classical roots of Italian art.

Mina Gregori, a scholar of international stature, is deeply rooted in Florence, where she has long taught at the university, becoming full professor of medieval and modern art history and training countless students. In her career, she has always favored the eye: to know an art historian, one must be able to “see.” It is the eye that conveys the message of figurative works. His cardinal teaching is that the art historian must put museums before libraries and direct viewing of works before photographs. Starting with the work itself, it will also tell its context, making the process of learning and understanding the visual arts a complete and immersive experience.

“I am presenting the Golden Pegasus to a great scholar of art, who taught to educate the eye to read the work of art, to recognize and love beauty, to convey new and sometimes difficult opinions for the world of culture and art that in Florence and Tuscany live their excellence,” said Tuscan President Eugenio Giani.

“I am very grateful,” said Mina Gregori upon receiving the award, “your presence shows all the affection and esteem you have for me. We all have the same ideals and we all aspire to the good of our country. Again, thank you.”

Mina Gregori receives the Golden Pegasus from the Region of Tuscany

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