A unique opportunity to showcase the design, stylistic and technical caliber of Giovan Battista Foggini, highlighting the multiplicity of his interventions and his “signature” that set a school in Florence: here his courtly and magniloquent style soon established itself, appreciated by the Medici, by his contemporaries and imitated by younger artists who found in him a brilliant master, with an imaginative and almost inexhaustible inventiveness.

Through a selection of sculptures, drawings and artefacts, the exhibition traces the career of Foggini, who trained in Rome at the Medici Academy founded by Cosimo III de’ Medici and became, once he returned to Florence, a grand-ducal sculptor, court architect and director of the Galleria Manufactures intended by the prince for the production of marvellous objects inlaid with semiprecious stones and precious metals. His style, characterised by a late-Baroque language influenced by Roman art, but original, defined the image of Florence at the end of the seventeenth century, acting as a ‘viaticum’ for subsequent generations.