Furini Exhibition at the Pitti Palace, Florence
Florence is gearing up to offer various attractions for the Christmas season and one of them includes a retrospective on the famous Florentine painter Furini. Major works of Furini will be exhibited at the Museo degli Argenti (Silver Museum), Pitti Palace from December 22, 2007 upto April 26, 2008.
Francesco Furini (1603-1646) is a famous Florentine artist who painted many famous works mainly on commissions from the House of Medici in the late seventeenth century. Furini’s paintings have a captivating and sensuous quality. This made him a favourite painter of the Medici.
Between 1639 and 1642 Ferdinand II commissioned Furini to cover an entire wall in the Pitti palace with a fresco. Furini covered the wall with “L’Accademia Platonica di Carregi (The Platonic Academy of Carregi) and “L’Allegoria della morte del Magnifico Lorenzo (Allegory of the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent).” Although his paintings also hang in other Medici Villas it is extremely appropriate that Pitti Palace is the venue for his retrospective.
The show will showcase many of his major paintings in chronological order. Some of his best and most acclaimed paintings will be on display from local and international collections. Some of his paintings, like the Hylus and the Nymphs have been borrowed from the Furini Art Gallery. The Hermitage has been gracious enough to lend the Three Graces and Prado has lent his famous painting Lot and his Daughters.
Florence has been the centre of art and culture from time immemorial. We welcome you to enjoy the joys of the holiday season and all its artistic and cultural aspects with us.