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paolo staccioliDiscover the Porcelain Museum in the Boboli Gardens

Joyful ceramics by Paolo Staccioli
[Susan Glasspool]

Discover the Porcelain Museum in the Boboli Gardens Paolo Staccioli’s ceramics are delicate, graceful and ironic in spite of the material used to make them. He instinctively knows how to use his talent to create and play with the art of his time so that his work can immediately be recognised in whatever the setting.
His ironic attitude towards his subject matter - vases, horses, knights, warriors, buildings, towers - brings joy to the heart in the embittered world of today. He takes a classical subject and transforms it into something original and amusing without ever destroying its original beauty. Just look at his dalliance with the Mars from Todi, the Roman Haranguer, the Oriental and Liberty styles, the towers of San Gimignano, the obelisque of Axum, Giò Ponti or Picasso.

His original exhibition has been arranged in the Porcelain Museum, housed in the Palazzina of the Cavaliere at the top end of the Boboli Gardens. The wonderful views to be admired all around this delightful little Museum are completed by its magical setting in the midst of flower beds full of roses and peonies. Here the Academicians of the Cimento and Gian Gastone of Lorraine once took French lessons while sipping from cups of hot chocolate, a charming idea that could almost be copied today!

The Museum itself contains some of the finest porcelain in Europe (from Sèvres, Vienna, Meissen and Doccia), much of which once belonged to Pietro Leopoldo and Ferdinando III of Lorraine.
The idea behind the show is to offer a contrast between the splendid classical collections of porcelain and the fascinating world of ceramics created by Staccioli and thus attract larger numbers of visitors to the Museum. We think the idea deserves to work as these magnificent Medici and Lorraine collections should certainly be appreciated as they deserve for their refined beauty and rarity.


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