The Gleam of Gold
GOLDEN FLASHES
THE INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC IN FLORENCE. 1375-1440
Uffizi Gallery
19 June to 4 November 2012
The main floor rooms of the Uffizi Gallery in 2012 will host a major exhibition that aims to reconstruct the panorama of
Florence in wonderful and crucial period that is approximately 1375 to 1440.
To return the weather caught and valuable of that long period, will be exhibited along with other very valuable paintings celebrated for centuries but so far little known to the general public, as well as wooden and marble sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, sacred and secular works of art: all creations of the highest quality and historic importance of absolute, from prestigious public museums and private collections from Italian and foreign. Seconding the chronology, the course will build on the works of the greatest performers of the last phase of the fourteenth-century tradition. And you can admire works of Agnolo Gaddi, Spinello Aretino, Antonio Veneziano, Gherardo Stamina and Lorenzo Monaco. Artist, the latter after the death of Stamina remains the greatest Florentine painter to propose a variant of the Gothic extreme personal, even alien to the refined naturalism of Gentile da Fabriano, lyrical witness of those years, he too in the show with famous boards for their breathtaking beauty. You will see the work of industrious artisans in Florence between the fourteenth and fifteenth century, encouraged by a provision of the recent cultural turn compliance artistic tradition the late fourteenth century and at the same time, however, interested in the disruptive innovations of the new humanistic doctrine, with the fervent recoveries that ancient suggested. Works that will be there to represent the highest level, artists deserving of a broader knowledge: Lippo d’Andrea, Mariotto di Cristofano, Giovanni Toscani, Ventura di Moro, Antonio and Francesco d’Arcangelo di Cola.
Together, however, experience the poetic virtues of Lorenzo Ghiberti, the most eminent personalities of the late Gothic Florentine, in whose yard for the first of the Baptistery doors, during the initial phase of its activities, had formed almost all leading hard-working artists in Florence.And nearby will be given to observe the gentle manner of Fra Angelico, emblematic artist – along with Michelozzo – an expressive line that aspired to combine the legacy of the artistic language of the recent past with the coming of age novel of the city with Brunelleschi and Masaccio . Line that had the consolation of some great humanists, that orbited around the Elder Cosimo de ‘Medici.
Finally – to close, really in a glow, the way – you will find one of the most famous texts of the early fifteenth century, returned to an unexpected readability : The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, fantastic flight, capable of synthesizing the dreams of an unrepeatable.
