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The Eighteenth-century works on show at the Festival d’Europa
On the occasion of the Festival d’Europa, the Uffizi Gallery on Monday 9th May features the restoration of the large and dramatic painting by Marco Benefial representing the “Massacre of the Innocents” (1730). Benefial was one of the chief and controversial protagonists of the eighteenth-century art in Rome and the restoration of this painting, carried out by Elda Nozzoli and managed by Valentina Conticelli, allowed the renovation of a highly significant eighteenth-century work. The canvas, which originally comes from the Feroni collection and which, for conservative reasons, was kept in the Uffizi store-rooms for a long time, will be placed again in the Gallery for the occasion.
Nessuna Pietà (No Mercy) is the title of the closing concert of the Blue Night
The cultural Association “Presente Remoto”, on the occasion of the first edition of the Festival d’Europa, on Sunday 8th May at 9 p.m. features, at the closing of the Blue Night, the project-concert “Nessuna Pietà” (No Mercy), focused on the idea of translating the great human tragedies occurred from the 19th century to date, into music. The songs resulting from Marco Vichi’s texts and the music by Nicola Pecci will alternate with lectures of the homonymous book that, through poems, essays and tales will expand on the subjects of the songs.
How to do. Saying and doing of the art trade
The Fondazione di Firenze per l'Artigianato Artistico (Florence Foundation for Artistic Handicraft), on the occasion of the Festival d’Europa, from 9th to 13th May, organizes an exhibition on the art trades, at the Spazio SAM/Vecchio Conventino in via Giano della Bella 20/1 - 20/2 (Florence). Its objective is to show the importance of handicrafts through the reproduction of manufacturing processes: tools, techniques and materials that, in the finished product, enclose both past and present of a piece of social and cultural history of society.
The exhibition “Come si fa. Dire e fare dei mestieri d'arte” (How to do. Saying and doing of the art trade) is open to the public from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Europe at the time of Giovan Pietro Vieusseux
A meeting that connects the Florence and national reality of the Gabinetto Vieusseux to the European context. It is planned for Tuesday 10th May at 4.30 p.m. at the Festival d’Europa, at the Gabinetto in Sala Ferri at Palazzo Strozzi. The event, whose title is “L’Europa del Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario di Giovan Pietro Vieusseux” (Europe of the Literary Scientific Gabinetto Giovan Pietro Vieusseux) aims at highlighting the connection between Europe and the young Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, founder of the Gabinetto. Vieusseux represented for Florence a window to Europe in the scientific, technical and cultural field. Speakers: Umberto Carpi, Marco Manfredi, Mauro Moretti, Simonetta Soldani, Alessandro Volpi. Coordinator: Maurizio Bossi.
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