Medici grand duke 400th anniversary events in Florence

Medici grand duke 400th anniversary

To celebrate the 400th Medici grand duke’s anniversary, Florence will host in the next days the following art exhibitions:

- Medici Chapels: show on life and times of  Ferdinando I de’ Medici, powerful third grand duke of Tuscany, (1549-1609), marking 400th anniversary of his death; until November 1.

- Bargello: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Living Marbles; until July 12.


- Palazzo Strozzi: Galileo show marking 400th anniversary of his first observations of the night sky; 250 exhibits including the middle finger from Galileo’s right hand; This 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first use of the telescope for astronomy is part of the justification for choosing this year as the International Year of Astronomy; until August 30.

- Palazzo Pitti: Memories of Antiquity in 20th-Century Art; 130 paintings and sculptures from Etruscan, classical and Renaissance times and 20th-century works by Picasso, Dali, Modigliani, De Chirico, Morandini, Carrà, Marino Marini and many more; until July 12.

- Palazzo Medici: 29 outfits from Court of Lorenzo il Magnifico recreated in paper from contemporary paintings by Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave; until June 14.

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