Where and when
Orario
11:00 – 20:00
Museo Novecento
Sunday 8 January returns to Metropolitan Sunday, a day on which all residents of the Metropolitan City of Florence will be able to visit the city’s museums for free and take part in the numerous visits and activities scheduled, developed thanks to the support of GIOTTO, the love brand of F.I.L.A. Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini, and of Lucart.
Many appointments to start 2023 in the name of art and culture in the Florentine Civic Museums and in the historic center of Florence.
At the Museo Novecento, young people and adults can visit the great exhibition Tony Cragg. Transfer, which includes wonderful sculptures and drawings by the artist, and the temporary exhibitions Alberto Magnelli. Armocromie and Jean Arp. Larme de galaxie; while at the Bardini Museum it will be possible to appreciate Emiliano Maggi‘s personal Songs and Spells.
Last day at Palazzo Medici Riccardi to visit the exhibition Passione Novecento. From Paul Klee to Damien Hirst, which allows the public to take a real journey into the 20th century thanks to the masterpieces of its most successful protagonists. Two activities for children will be held here, the first, Occhio al Novecento, on the current exhibition and the second, The Journey of the Magi, on the Epiphany: an anniversary full of connections with the precious Chapel painted by Benozzo Gozzoli and kept in the heart of Medici palace.
PALAZZO MEDICI RICCARDI
Occhio al Novecento
for whom: for families with children from 7 to 12 years old
times: 10.30 am
duration: 1h15′
Each artist tells his time and his world through the lenses of sensitivity and technique, inextricably linked: thanks to a special animated visit, intertwined with a “treasure hunt” aimed at identifying and identifying the details of the works on display, we will discover how to recognize the artists and their style, from the unmistakable brushstrokes of Renato Guttuso to the sunny surfaces of Giorgio De Chirico, from the typographical screens of Roy Lichtenstein to the cracking of the material by Alberto Burri.
Visit to the exhibition Passione Novecento. From Paul Klee to Damien Hirst
for whom: for young people and adults
times: 12.00 pm
duration: 1h15′
The visit offers an ideal itinerary in the art of the twentieth century, thanks to a list of extremely significant masterpieces by the greatest artists of the century: from Klee to Mirò, from Warhol to Hirst without forgetting the very Italian De Chirico, Guttuso, Burri or Rotella, the participants will be able to grasp the peculiarities of their poetics and their work, appreciating particularly representative results, embracing in a single glance testimonies of the languages of painting, sculpture and photography. Particular emphasis will be placed on the values of collecting and patronage, closely related to the history of these works and, more generally, to the development of art history over the centuries.
The Journey of the Magi
for whom: for families with children from 6 to 11 years old
times: 3.00 pm; 4.30 pm
duration: 1h15′
The Florentine devotion to the cult of the Magi, so felt between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that it gave life to the homonymous Company based in San Marco and to the famous city festival of the Epiphany, finds full expression in the frescoes painted by Benozzo Gozzoli for the family chapel Doctors. After having visited the environment and retraced the stages of the link between this sacred festivity, the city of Florence and the Medici exponents, the participants will be involved in an artistic laboratory in which they will be able to execute a small painting on a gold background, evocative of the iconography and of the magnificence of the cycle painted in the chapel.