QUOTIDIANOMIME

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Until April 12 at the Quirinale Palace there will be the exhibition “Giuseppe. Il Principe dei Sogni.”

For the first time in 150 years the wonderful collection of twenty tapestries made by Pontormo and Bronzino, one of which is of Salviati, is on display in the Sala dei Corazzieri and through the use of panels the Salone dei Dugento Florence is reproduced, the original location collection was dismembered by the Savoy in 1882.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Presidency of the Italian Republic, the City of Florence and the Municipality of Milan in collaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Expo 2015 and the Foundation Bracco.

The twenty tapestries, recently restored whose main sponsor was Gucci, with the support of Acea, were commissioned in 1545 by Cosimo I Medici to Pontormo and Bronzino and tell the stories of how the biblical son of Jacob became a slave viceroy of Egypt.

Joseph is the patriarch of the Old Testament and ideally represents the Signore Medici.

This series of twenty monumental roles, the subject of a decades-long process of restoration carried out by expert restorers of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence and the Laboratorio del Quirinale, represent one of the most significant testimonies, crafts and Renaissance art.

Cosimo, in fact, decided to entrust the preparatory drawings to the greatest artists of the time including Pontormo. But the evidence proved that it did not entirely convince the lord Medici who decided to turn also to Agnolo Bronzino, pupil of Pontormo and court painter, to whom we owe a portion of the narrative of the collection. Jan Rost and Nicolas Karcher were the masters of Flemish weavers who created masterpieces materially.

The unique exhibition will move from April 29 to August 23 in Milan in the Sala delle Cariatidi at the Palazzo Reale, and will be one of the flagship events of the Expo.

His trip will end at the Palazzo Vecchio (Florence), from September 15 to February 15, in its original location.

The mayor of Milan Pisapia stressed how this project demonstrates the fact that Expo will not only be a showcase of food and feed but will be a cultural initiative aimed at uniting Italy, showing how the country is a concentrated extraordinary style, art, history and beauty and exhibition dedicated to tapestries of Pontormo and Bronzino shows it very well.