adminCB2 On the occasion of the Celebrations for the 450th anniversary of the death of Cosimo I dei Medici and Giorgio Vasari, the Fondazione Casa Buonarroti is organising a round table on the theme Giorgio Vasari and the Medici between art and politics. Alessandro Cecchi, Federico Giglio and Laura Overpelt will discuss the topic, also in … More
Given the interest shown by the public for the cycle of conferences organised by the Casa Buonarroti to highlight the most important sheets of its collection of Michelangelo’s drawings, it has been decided to continue with the appointments in the autumn and winter months of 2024 and 2025, offering the opportunity to get to know … More
by Cristina Acidini e Alessandro Cecchi “Buonarrotiana. Studi su Michelangelo e la famiglia Buonarroti”, vol. 4 Officina Libraria 2023 The restoration of the Inclination by Artemisia Gentileschi, the most famous artist of the Italian and European 17th century, involved not only conservation work on the painting but also an extensive diagnostic campaign using the most … More
Carocci editore 2024 This volume offers a new perspective on Michelangelo’s poetry that, by combining historical-philological rigour with a topical perspective, highlights the themes of subjectivity, creativity and identity that lie at the heart of the artist’s rhizomatic writing. From the reading of Buonarroti’s poems emerges an anxious questioning of the danger and the possibilities … More
At the end of May 2024, the usual summer concert program resumes in the courtyard from the Casa Buonarroti. On May 30, at 6 p.m., the concert Viola o Clarinetto? Quintetti così e cosà, organized in collaboration with the Associazione Giotto in musica, dedicated to the Quintets of Mozart and Brahms, according to the attached program. … More
On 15 March 2024, the Casa Buonarroti Foundation and Opera Laboratori sealed an agreement that will see them engage together in the realisation of ambitious new projects aimed at promoting and enhancing the precious and varied heritage collected by Michelangelo’s heirs in the historic family home, now a museum, in Via Ghibellina in Florence. View … More
Sheet AB, I, 57, 144r for Palazzo Medici and the drawings for the marble carving in the New Sacristy related to it On the occasion of Prof. Vitale Zanchettin’s lecture, the last in the series dedicated to Michelangelo’s drawings, the Casa Buonarroti has decided to dedicate a selection of Michelangelo’s drawings and autograph writings from … More
In 1516, Michelangelo succeeded in obtaining from Pope Leo X de’ Medici the commission to design a grandiose façade for the basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, which was still without a covering from the time of its construction according to Filippo Brunelleschi’s design. Thanks to his friendship with Giuliano da Sangallo, the most important … More
Special visit to the Museum to celebrate the anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth The appointment is on Wednesday 6 March at 3 p.m. We are organising a guided tour of the Museum, with the director and the art historians from the Director’s Office. The visit will offer the opportunity to recall the extraordinary life of Michelangelo … More
Vittoria Colonna Carteggio Vittoria Colonna, the poetess who was Michelangelo’s friend and inspiration in his mature years, did not conceive of her letters as literary works, to be selected, corrected and published. Yet her correspondence – which responds to different instances, to which correspond different tones, styles and languages: brief family communications, pages of administrative … More
We would like to inform visitors that, starting November 29 and (presumably) until January 05, 2024, the room in the museum that displays Michelangelo’s drawings will undergo redevelopment works whose primary objective is to offer the public easier viewing and a more pleasant visiting experience. During these days Michelangelo’s drawings and manuscripts will not be … More
Exhibition curator: Alessandro Cecchi Florence, Casa Buonarroti, 26 September 2023 – 8 January 2024 The restoration of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Inclination, originally placed on the ceiling of the Galleria Buonarrotiana, generously financed by Calliope Arts and Christian Levett, has allowed a reinterpretation and appreciation of the work that was unthinkable before the intervention, and further discoveries … More
Casa Buonarroti is organising a cycle of conferences dedicated to the most important folios in its collection of Michelangelo’s drawings for the autumn of 2023. The lectures are part of the project to refurbish the museum room dedicated to the temporary exhibition of drawings, which will be carried out in 2023 to complete the renovation … More
Art historian Costantino D’Orazio, curator of the upcoming exhibition dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, will illustrate documents related to the rape trial brought in Rome in 1612 by Orazio Gentileschi against Agostino Tassi. The affair presents many issues that are still unresolved today, which D’Orazio will address with the help … More
Do Michelangelo’s sculptures, frescoes and poems reflect Catholic orthodoxy, or are they rather the work of a follower of the Reformation forced into secrecy? The question of Michelangelo’s religiosity is still debated, often favouring all too one-sided perspectives. The volume Capricci luterani? Michelangelo artista e poeta nel contesto del dibattito religioso del Cinquecento, edited by Christine … More
The seven museums of the Welcome network – Museo e Istituto Fiorentino di Preistoria, Museo della Casa Buonarroti, Museo Horne, Museo Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, Museo Galileo, Il Giardino di Archimede e il Sistema Museale di Ateneo – tell the story of Florence from Prehistory to the Modern Age from their collections and activities. The speakers … More
Saturday, September 2 and Sunday, September 3, 2023 on the occasion of #DomenicalMuseum Organized by the National Association of Houses of Memory and Association of Friends of the Museums of Palazzo Davanzati and Casa Martelli APS Sunday, September 3, 2023, 11 a.m. Free guided tour of the Casa Buonarroti, with paid admission (reduced ticket, € … More
In June and July 2023 the Musei Welcome Firenze network is organising a new cycle of conversations ARTI E SCIENZE – VISITE A DUE VOCI NEI MUSEI FIORENTINI, three summer appointments to explore new themes with a multidisciplinary approach. The first appointment, entitled Dal disegno all’opera finita, will be held at the Museo Horne and … More
After the long break due to the pandemic emergency, the usual programme of summer concerts in the courtyard of the Casa Buonarroti resumes. Two concerts will be held in June 2023, organised in collaboration with the Associazione Giotto in musica. The first concert will be held on 20 June, the second on 27 June, both … More
The Fondazione Casa Buonarroti and the Opera di Santa Croce have launched the Santa Croce e il suo quartiere project, part of a system of thematic itineraries in which the Santa Croce neighbourhood is inserted as a starting point and fundamental stage of networked, urban and regional cultural and tourist itineraries. Thanks to the agreement signed between … More
Marco Ciatti and Marco Collareta present the volume Michelangelo: the early works New acquisitions edited by Cristina Acidini and Alessandro Cecchi (Officina Libraria 2022) Introduced Father Giuseppe Pagano and Alessandro Cecchi May 23, 2023 – 5:30 p.m. Hall of the Chapter of Santo Spirito – Florence The volume Michelangelo. Early Works. New Acquisitions is devoted … More
A Comet to the East Celestial signs and prophecy in the habitus spiritual of Michelangelo and the artists of his Florentine circle Lecture by Sergio Taddei Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5 p.m. Florence, Casa Buonarroti, via Ghibellina 70 The presentation is open to the public up to the maximum capacity allowed by security regulations Sixteenth-century … More
Casa Buonarroti Foundation Friday, March 3, 2023 12 noon to 1 p.m. Florence, Casa Buonarroti via Ghibellina, 70 Preview reserved for the press The restoration of 342 autograph letters of Michelangelo Buonarroti The restoration and digitization were carried out thanks to the contribution of Ente Cambiano scpa One of the most valuable sections of the … More
Bruce Edelstein and Elena Fumagalli present the volume by Vincenzo Sorrentino A Patron Family Between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples (Routledge 2022) Introduced by Cristina Acidini and Alessandro Cecchi February 27, 2023 – 5:00 p.m. Casa Buonarroti – via Ghibellina 70 Florence The presentation is open to the public up to the maximum capacity allowed … More
Buonarroti House Foundation Traces of the Order of Malta at Casa Buonarroti The Stone of St. Paul and Fra Francesco Buonarroti Lecture by Matthias Ebejer (European University Institute) Thursday, February 9, 2023, 5 p.m. Florence, Casa Buonarroti, via Ghibellina 70 Among the lesser-known collections of the Casa Buonarroti is a valuable collection of more than … More
At the end of September 2022, preliminary operations began for the restoration of Artemisia Gentileschi’s famous canvas, the Inclination, painted in 1616, commissioned by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger for the ‘Gallery’ of the family palazzo in Via Ghibellina in Florence. The room on the piano nobile, the first of the sumptuous apparatus celebrating the great … More
We are pleased to communicate to our audience of friends and supporters that finally, starting from next August 3rd, it will be possible to admire again in its entirety the Sala dei Marmi, created last spring by the Friends of Florence. At the end of the splendid retrospective dedicated to Donatello, held at Palazzo Strozzi … More
The Madonna of the Stairs is on loan to the exhibition “Donatello, Il Rinascimento“ at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, from 19 March to 31 July 2022. The bas-relief, sculpted by Michelangelo when he was just 15 years old, is a tribute to Donatello, the greatest sculptor of the 15th century, from whom the theme … More
The Casa Buonarroti has joined the Associazione Nazionale Case della Memoria, a network of 90 house museums located in 13 Italian regions. «The entry of the Casa Buonarroti into our network is a very precious piece that symbolically closes the circle on the figure of Michelangelo, joining the Casa natale in Caprese Michelangelo, our member … More
FROM 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 TO 20 FEBRUARY 2022, THE BUONARROTI HOUSE WILL HOST A SECTION OF THE EXHIBITION ON JENNY SAVILLE, ONE OF THE GREATEST LIVING PAINTERS AND A LEADING VOICE ON THE INTERNATIONAL ART SCENE http://www.museonovecento.it/en/mostre/jenny-saville/
In 2019 the Fondazione Casa Buonarroti launched the series “Buonarrotiana. Studi su Michelangelo e la famiglia Buonarroti”, dedicated to original research on the identity themes of the Institution, entrusted to specialists of various disciplines and tackled in a perspective of comparison between different visions and approaches. The series was inaugurated by the volume Michelangelo … More
Presentation of the volume Michelangelo e la “maniera di figure piccole” by Marcella Marongiu, with essays by Marcello Abbiati, Barbara Agosti, Elena Calvillo, Alessandro Cecchi, Laura Gianesini, Federica Kappler, Massimo Romeri. Edifir 2019. Monday, February 8, 2021, 5:00 p.m. – Teams Platform. Carlo Falciani talks about the book, with the participation of Marcella Marongiu, Alessandro … More
APRIL 3RD – MAY 15TH 2019
