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The great genius Arnolfo
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Aunique exhibition, with Arnolfo di Cambio as protagonist, commemorates the seventh centenary of this brilliant artist’s death. It is the first monographic show to celebrate this most important artist, architect and sculptor, active between the 13th and 14th centuries, who, with Cimabue, in painting, laid down the foundations of the Renaissance and created the modern artistic language that Giotto shortly afterwards spread throughout Europe.
Entitled Arnolfo, from the origins of the Florentine Renaissance, this exhibition of sculpture at the Museum of the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore is open until April 21st 2006. It is promoted by the National Committee for the 7th Centenary of the death of Arnolfo di Cambio, presided over by Mons. Timothy Verdon, the Ente Cassa di Risparmio of Florence and the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore. It includes about 90 sculptures in marble and wood on display, in other words, almost all the work of Arnolfo present in Florence together with whatever it has been possible to bring from elsewhere in Italy and abroad, among them the Annunciation from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Madonna Loeser from Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. The exhibition also presents sculpture, paintings and goldsmithery dating from the late Florentine 13th century, in order to offer an overall view of the artistic picture of the city in Arnolfo’s time.
The show thus allows the public to get a completely new idea of Arnolfo’s skill by comparing surviving works with a final attempt to make a logical recomposition of his unfinished masterpiece, the lost facade of Santa Maria del Fiore, dismembered and scattered in the late 16th century. Here the absolute novelty is the restitution of portions of the facade, complete with their decorative elements, marbles and mosaics, reassembled with the various remaining fragments.
Born in Colle Val d’Elsa between 1240 and 1245, Arnolfo di Cambio was active in Siena, Rome, Orvieto, Perugia and Florence and was responsible for influencing many of the artistic styles in Italy with the latest French Gothic trends. He sculpted celebrative statues of the Angevin kings and Popes, and carried out the furnishings for the great Roman basilicas. In Florence he worked on the principal monuments: Santa Croce, Palazzo Vecchio and the new Cathedral.


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