After the success of the exhibit “Piero della Francesco and the Italian Courts,” Arezzo continues to celebrate the great personalities born in this city. This time the protagonists are the members of the Della Robbia family who, for three generations beginning in 1400, raised ceramics to the level of its sister arts. With loans from the most important museums around the world, works by family will recount a century of Tuscan and italian history.
The great exhibition “ The Della Robbia” will take place in the whole province of Arezzo from 21st February to 7th June. It is an exhibition dedicated to the famous family of Italian sculptors skilled in the technique of polychrome glazed earthenware. ..
The exhibition ( The Della Robbia: the dialogue between the arts in the Renaissance), mounted in the halls of the Museo Statale d’Arte Medievale e Moderna of Arezzo and edited by Giancarlo Gentilini and Liletta Fornasari, intends to show the multifaceted and fascinating story of the “robbiana” glazed earthenware in the Renaissance - from the enigmatic reasons of Luca Della Robbia’s ingenious invention to the extraordinary progress of this “new, useful and beautiful art” in the activity of Della Robbia family and of The Buglioni’s competitive workshop- but above all it intends to underline, for the first time in an exhibition, the close dialogue between the arts. Sculpture, painting, architecture and decorative arts compare themselves in a fascinating route, which lets visitors admiring the works of the most important exponents of Renaissance, such as Donatello, Ghiberti, Andrea del Verrocchio, Rossellino, Pisanello, Filippo Lippi, Pollaiolo, Ghirlandaio Perugino, Lorenzo di Credi, Leonardo, Frà Bartolomeo, Domenico Veneziano, Frà Carnevale, Sansovino, as well as the Della Robbia’s masterpieces by running through again a century of Italian history of art and the fervent atmosphere of the Renaissance Tuscany. Therefore, this is an ambitious and totally new exhibition which will surely allow visitors to reinterpret and gain a deeper understanding into the meaning and the value of an extraordinary art of which there are still many important examples in the Province of Arezzo. The exhibition thus becomes the heart of a route that takes you across this area- through the Casentino, Valdarno, Valdichiana and Valtiberina valleys- in various extremely evocative itineraries where art and nature entwine together in a wonderfully fascinating combination.
Useful information
Exhibition seat
Museo Statale d’Arte Medievale e Moderna
Arezzo, via San Lorentino 8
21st February- 7th June 2009
Opening time
Everyday
9.00-19.00
(Ticket Office closing : 18:00)
Tickets
Ticket Euro 10,00
Cheap Ticket euro 7,00
