Alessandro Lazzeri-Nove da Firenze
This article has been translated from Italian to English.
Buonarroti Home will be on display from November 10 until January 10, 2011, eleven bronze medals taken from masterpieces by Michelangelo. In the courtyard of the museum will be located an impressive Moses and the New Sacristy in the Medici Madonna, the original marble is without doubt one of the highlights of a career supreme, while in the exhibition halls on the ground floor the visitor can admire a large series of bronzes, starting in his youth with the Madonna of the Stairs to end up in the extreme, tragic Rondanini Pieta.
The bronzes are the work of Marinelli Artistic Foundry, a company that now three generations working on products that can be defined as celebrities, cast in bronze by the Holy Door of St. Peter’s, dating back to the jubilee year 1950, the spiral staircase for access the Vatican Museums.
As for Florence, just mention the Bacchus Giambologna al Ponte Vecchio, the Pig by Pietro Tacca in New Market, the four figures at the base of Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini in the Loggia dei Lanzi.
The works carried out by a group of craftsmen who still work the old, to play life-sized sculptures that are part of the history of our country.
Over the years becomes more and more rare and valuable work of this kind, partly because of necessity should be based on the possession of old and very hard to find cast taken from the original, as can be seen if you visit the unique collection of plaster casts of Marinelli Artistic Foundry in Poggibonsi .
It is a production that touches particularly significant moments with life-size reproductions of masterpieces by Michelangelo, including the Saint Peter’s Pieta, already exhibited in the museum of the Casa Buonarroti in April 2007. Particularly appreciated by the public also raised the Bruges Madonna and Child, this last year in the museum in a thrilling bronze drawing from the same foundry.
The Florence exhibition is enriched by three original documents relating to the Buonarroti Archive events linked to Bacchus, the New Sacristy and the tomb of Pope Julius II laid the Moses has at last become the central element. Documents that help us understand how Michelangelo svolgesse his work, from the quarry to the location of the work over, and brought him much suffering the “tragedy of the burial” of Julius II.
The bronzes have been commissioned by the Marinelli Foundry Art New Renaissance Art, the American company that deals with the dissemination of these works in the world and is organizing an exhibition tour in the U.S. called “The Michelangelo Experience”.
The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet that also give notice of the original Michelangelo’s marble.