MuDEV - Finestre sull'Arte

Cimabue, Duccio or Giotto? The enigmatic Madonna of Castelfiorentino, a crucial work in our art history

It is truly impressive to scroll through the bibliography on the extraordinary late 13th-century Madonna and Child preserved at the Museum of Santa Verdiana in Castelfiorentino, in the hills of Valdelsa. Many of the greatest art historians of all...
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August 23, 1944, the massacre of the Padule di Fucecchio: in Cerreto Guidi a museum so as not to forget

It was six o'clock in the morning. The area of the Padule di Fucecchio, the vast marshland that occupies the heart of Tuscany between Empoli and Pontedera and laps the town of Fucecchio, was slowly waking up. Its inhabitants were beginning to pre...
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Masolino's Christ in Pity, the 15th-century masterpiece that inspired Bill Viola

"Neo-Giottesque locutions": with this expression, the great art historian Roberto Longhi referred to the figures that appear in the very famous Christ in Pieta by Masolino da Panicale (real name Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini, Panicale, 1383 - Floren...
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Vitruvian man as a symbol of imbalance: Mario Ceroli reinterprets Leonardo da Vinci

The story of one of the best-known and most photographed works of contemporary art in all of Tuscany, namely The Man of Vinci by Mario Ceroli (Castel Frentano, 1938), the monumental wooden sculpture that pays homage to Leonardo da Vinci'sVitruvia...
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The Rosso di Montelupo, a masterpiece of a centuries-old ceramic tradition

When art is linked to its territory, it creates a series of connections that range from culture toeconomics, from history to the everyday life of an entire population; it becomes itself a testimony to a past that must be studied and deepened in order...
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When Telemaco Signorini painted and denounced the drudgery of the Arno risers.

In 1874, when the great Macchiaioli artist Telemaco Signorini (Florence, 1835 - 1901) exhibited his towpath, one of the most celebrated products of his brush, for the third time exactly ten years after its creation, the reception it received was not ...
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The extraordinary story of a blind sculptor: Giovanni Gonnelli, the Blind Man of Gambassi

The history of art is filled with extraordinary events, some of which are known to most, while others are less well known but no less fascinating and worthy of being told. These are vicissitudes involving artists who are considered minor, perhaps bec...
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Montespertoli's delightful masterpiece: the Madonna and Child by Filippo Lippi

If there were to be a ranking of the Italian works of art that have most traveled the world to be displayed in international exhibitions, then probably the Madonna and Child by Filippo Lippi (Florence, 1406 - Spoleto, 1469) preserved at the Museu...
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