In 2012 Florence will be marking the 500 years since the death of Amerigo Vespucci with an exhibition designed to celebrate the strong ties linking the Old World and the New. the exhibition is organised by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi from 3 March until 15 July 2012.
The American painters established an extremely fertile relationship with Florence and other cities in Tuscany between the middle of the 19th century and the World War 1. Florence, Venice and Rome were the main cities, which the painters prefered.
They were also attracted by the charm and variety of the landscape, of the ancient monuments, of the art of the past and by the picturesque charm of the local people.
The exhibition is divided into five sections with works by over thirty American Impressionists artists who worked in Florence . Some, like John Singer Sargent, are famous. On returning home, in they played a crucial role in forming the new generation of American painters. They also gave birth to a national school of painting.
The paintings focuses on the places where the Americans’ daily life was played out in Florence and on self-portraits. One of the section of the exhibition is dedicated to the reconstruction of the environment in which the influential Italian-American collector Egisto Fabbri’s artistic education took place.
“The Image of Florence and Tuscany” is another section where the visitor encounters views of the city and its surroundings painted in accordance with the literary standards introduced by the novels of Edward Morgan Foster and other literary figures.
Section five is dedicated to the image of “America through the Lens of Painting and Literature”. This section takes the visitors back in the Old World through the artists who had painted Florence and Tuscany.
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December 19, 2011
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