In the temple of the fifteenth -century sculpture: the Donatello show of the Bargello Museum -Florence reopens

Sealant – Originally, before he was transformed into prison, it was the great room of the hearing where in 1302 the death penalty was pronounced by Dante Alighieri and his eternal exile.
Now the Donatello show, the oldest core of the Bargello Palace, visibly returns to the public in a renewed form. After almost a year of restoration and repeat work, the temple of the Italian sculpture of the fifteenth century returns to visitors the absolute masterpieces of the Renaissance sculpture it has. In the most impressive environment of the building you can now admire nine masterpieces from Donatello: the David In Marble, the San GiorgioIl Marzoccothe famous David In bronze, theAttisIl Dancing puttothe Crucifixionthe The head of the bearded man and the Madonna van Via Pietrapiana. The San Giovanni Battista Martelli are added to this in collaboration with Desiderio da Sattigano and other works in a part of the artist’s hand, partly performed on his project, in the store.

Next to the Masterpieces of Donatello Are Exhibited In The Salone Works Of Those Masters Who Were With Him The Founding Fathers Of The Florentine Renaissance: Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti And Again WITLA WHOUSY OF THE CONTEMPORARIES -Growing terracotta, which vasari called “a new, useful and beautiful art”.

The Donatello Salon, Bargello National Museum | Photo: © Nicola Neri

There is no shortage of artists who were narrow employees of Donatello, such as Michelozzo, or first students, as a desire for Settignano and Bertoldo di Giovanni who contributed to making the Florentine sculpture of the first Renaissance -Sursturious.

The project, coordinated by the General Manager Musei Massimo Osanna, was compiled by Ilaria Ciseri, an official responsible for the museum, while the restorations were carried out under the supervision of Benedetta Cantini.

“The Reopening of this Monumental Room – Declares Massimo Osanna – After Significant Restoration and Rearrangement Interventions, Returns to the Public An Environment of Exceptional Architectural Value and a Renewed and Accessible Exhibition and Innation. Whether the works and offering instruments of inclusive use, designed for all public.

The new set -up, which embraces 65 works, makes an immediate dialogue possible between the two David di Donatello, an emblematic comparison of the rapid stylistic evolution of the sculptor. The position of Donatello and David del Verrocchio Actis is also reconsidered, also moved in the context of a setting that aims to reduce more narrative coherence and readability to the route of the exhibition.

The Donatello Salon, Bargello National Museum | Photo: © Nicola Neri

The didactic equipment of the salon has been completely renewed and updated. To improve the works and to strengthen the link with the context of origin, some sculptures such as the Weapon Martelli di Desiderio da Settignano, soon accessible to the Museum of Casa Martelli, and the two Sibille di Michelozzo, are already visible to the Museum of Orsanmichele, moved to the offices in the offices in the office. Recently attributed to Walter Monich, The announcement Instead, it was granted in deposit to the National Museum of Abruzzo in L’Aquila, which made it possible to make the homposition with the historical artistic heritage of its territory. Instead, they found a new location in the Bargello San Giovanni Battista In Marble by Francesco da Sangallo, moved to the Michelangelo Room, EL‘Eros In Bronze, already attributed to the store of Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, now in the Bronzetti room with a new attribution to Guglielmo della Porta.