The exhibition - curated by Cristina Maritano, the curator of Palazzo Madama, with the collaboration of Lorenzo Mariano Gallo and Annalaura Pistarino from Turin’s Natural Sciences Museum – is the fourth part of the exhibition series Earth!, which connects Palazzo Madama with the museums of Castellamonte, Savona, Mondovì, Albissola Marina and Albisola Superiore that deal with the history of ceramics. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Palazzo Madama’s exhibition explores the historical and technological aspects of the production of porcelain, a technique well represented at the museum, which showcases one of the world’s most important porcelain collections as for quality and number of pieces.
An exhibition celebrating the prestigious milestone reached by the Murano glassworks Nason Moretti, which was started in 1923, is underway at the Murano Glass Museum. Since its inception, the furnace turned special attention to glass for the table, characterized by intense colors. Glassware, which became icons of 20th-century glass art, is presented, such as the […]
18/05/2023 - 06/01/2024
EVENTSThe Ginori Museum, which as of 2019 is part of the “Fondazione Museo Archivio Richard Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia,” is still closed to the public, but can be seen online, (museoginori.org), because it “already has so many stories to tell,” not only as a place that preserves a vast artistic and archival heritage, but […]
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The rose window, the upper part of the large four-light window in the Chapel of Santa Croce, in the Bolognese basilica was made between 1464 and 1466. The preparatory cartoons were made by the painter Michele di Matteo and the stained-glass window executed by the master glassmaker and German Dominican friar Jacob Griesigner, later to […]
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“La Grande Bellezza – The Dream Factory”, progetto di mecenatismo contemporaneo per l’alto artigianato artistico, promosso da Starhotels in collaborazione con Fondazione Cologni, OMA-Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte e Gruppo Editoriale, dopo il grande successo di pubblico ottenuto al Fuorisalone milanese 2023 sarà in mostra al Giardino Corsini (15/17 settembre, Firenze) con un allestimento inedito: il […]