Florence features a host of outstanding exhibitions queued up for the coming year as Fiorenza’s museum chief Cristina Acidini declared on Tuesday. Revealing exhibitions for 2010, she said six major crowd-pullers were already in the pipeline, with various more to be settled over coming months. Palazzo Pitti will host the first top event, an unusual show dedicated to the art of cameos and intaglio sculpture, which expanded on the Italian Renaissance. Pregio e Bellezza (Value and Beauty), which runs from March 25 until June 27, boasts a number of prodigious pieces, with a special focus on items lying to the Medici family.

The cogent Florentine family had a heat for stone sculpture and armed one of the most significant collectings in history, stated Acidini. One of the gems on exhibit is the supposed ‘Seal of Nero’, a delicious cornelian sculpture, looked up by loads of authors and artists over the decades, describing the myth of Marsyas and Apollo. On May 22, the Uffizi Gallery will spread a mass exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, labeling 400 years since his death. Over 100 crucial artworks by the master and his coevals are designed for the event, said Acidini, several of which adopted locally. An exposition researching the custom of 15th-century spousal art in Florence spreads at the Galleria dell Accademia in June.

Uncommon and treasured paintings by maestros such as Sandro Botticelli and Fra Filippo Lippi will go on exhibit, aboard finely ornamented bedframes and nuptial chests. A tribute from the Medici family to Henry IV of France is the center of an exposition in the Medici Chapel Museum, which comes in Fiorenza in July after a stretch in the honored Musee National du Chateau in Pau, south-west France. From July till November, Palazzo Pitti will spotlight a varied exposition observing the art, science and myths of wine in ancient Mediterranean cultures. The concluding major upshot of the year is an exposition dedicated to Giovanfrancesco Rustici, the first substantial overview of his work in a big museum, running from September until early 2011. The talented, yet little-known carver, learned under and cooperated with Leonardo da Vinci for several years. Acidini said particulars were also being straightened out for a fresh opening titled ‘Florence for Family’, a task purposed to boosting games and educations at both Fiorenza’s art and science museums.