Giovanni and Telemaco Signorini's Florence

What you will find

The large and historical halls of one of the most beautiful palaces in the centre of Florence, Palazzo Antinori, are open to the public, until this coming November 10th, to host about sixty extraordinary paintings (some never on show before) by Telemaco Signorini and his father, Giovanni (1808- 1864) , named "the Florentine Canaletto" as the artist was the Grand Duke Leopoldo II di Lorena's favourite landscape painter. The show documents the evolution of landscape painting in Tuscany: from the late romantic period, according to the models by Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, to the modern figurative aesthetics of the "macchia" period, of which Telemaco was among the most refined and daring experimenters. The visitors can enjoy, in the background, the profile of an illuminated and culturally brilliant Florence, spectacular in its sober monumentality of an ideal European city, but at the same time still enclosed in its warm domestic dimension. The paintings on display are both important loans from prestigious private collections and from the Gallery of Modern Art of Palazzo Pitti.

From 19/09/2019 to 10/11/2019
How to get there: historical centre
Event Location: Palazzo Antinori
Price: € 13 full price; € 10 reduced

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