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attaché monthly activities
Apri l 2015
Palazzo Tornabuoni Lifestyle, Unique Member Only Experiences
Member Day Trip to Siena and Montepulciano
17 New events
Visit of Bronze Exhibitionat Palazzo Tornabuoni
Private Visit of the Emilio Pucci Foundation
Private Visit at the home of Florentine Photographer Massimo Listri
index attaché monthly activities
April 2015
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sunday, April 5th
Easter Chocolate Tasting| 04
MONday, April 6TH
Easter Concert| 04
MONday, April 6TH
Easter Themed Aperitivo with Chef Lisa Banchieri| 05
thursday, April 9TH
Private Visit of the Sigaro Toscano Factory in Lucca
thursday, April 9TH
Private Art History Lecture with Margreta Moss, The History of Palazzo Tornabuoni
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friDAY, April 10TH
Fiorenzo Fratini Onlus Charity Event| 07
monday, April 13TH
Members Club Dinner with Guest Chef and Wine Producer| 07
monday, April 20TH
Art History Lecture with Sian Walters The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Fra Angelico’s High Altarpiece for San Domenico, Fiesole
thursday, April 23rd
Art History Lecture with Rocky Ruggiero “Il Gigante”- The Evolution of the David Image in Florence
friday, April 24th
Private Visit of the Emilio Pucci Foundation
friday, April 24TH
Visit of Bronze Exhibition at Palazzo Tornabuoni followed by a Bronze Themed Tour of the City with Art Historian Rocky Ruggiero
tuesday, April 28TH
Tour and luncheon at the Marinelli Foundry
tuesday, April 21st
An exclusive experience at the Giardino Torrigiani
friDAY, April 17TH
Member Day Trip to Siena and Montepulciano
monday, April 27TH
Art History Lecture with Lynn Catterson, Secrets of the Archive.Stefano Bardini & his Restoration Practice
wednesday, April 29TH
Private Visit and Aperitivo at the home of Florentine Photographer Massimo Listri
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thursDAY, April 16TH
Jazz Aperitivo| 07
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sunday, April 5TH
Easter Chocolate Tasting
Time 5.00 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
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monday, April 6TH
Easter Concert
Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
Add to your calendar
monday, April 6th
Easter Themed Aperitivo with Chef Lisa Banchieri
Time 7.15 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
Add to your calendar
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thursday, April 9th
Private Visit of the Sigaro Toscano Factory in Lucca
The Toscano cigar is the original Italian cigar manufactured in
Tuscany. It is made of high-quality fermented Kentucky tobacco.
Founded in the early 19th century, the Toscano cigar is rich in
history, tradition and heritage.
8.45 am: Depart Palazzo Tornabuoni by minivan
10.00am: Private Guided Visit of the Factory in English
11.00am: Tasting led by Fabrizio Franchi with spirits, wines
and chocolate in conjunction with the Toscano cigar
1.30pm: Lunch at Buca di San Antonio, Lucca
4.00pm: Arrive back at Palazzo Tornabuoni
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Cost € 70.00 per person for the visit, € 65 for the transportation, minimun of 6 partecipantsRSPV by April 1
Confirm
thursday, April 9th
Art History Lecture with Margreta Moss, The History of Palazzo Tornabuoni
Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
Add to your calendar
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friday, April 10TH
Fiorenzo Fratini Onlus Charity Event
Where Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
Add to your calendar
thursday, April 16TH
Jazz Aperitivo
Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
Add to your calendar
monday, April 13TH
Members Club Dinner with Guest Chef and Wine Producer
Time 7.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club LoungeCost € 70.00 per person
Add to your calendar
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friday, April 17th
Member Day Trip to Siena and Montepulciano
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Time 9.30 amWhere Siena and Montepulciano, depart Palazzo TornabuoniCost € 100 per person, cost includes transportation, private visit to winery with tasting, lunch is not included, minimum 6 participants requiredRSPV by April 10
9.30 am: Depart Florence and drive to Siena
10.30 am: Arrive in Siena
Your guide Margarita, will meet you in the Piazza del
Campo and give you a tour of the historical centre of
Siena and its main monuments.
12.30 pm: Tour of the artisans laboratories and showroom of
Riccardo Barthel
6.o0 pm: Lunch, served on the “Artisan’s courtyard”
monday, April 20th
Art History Lecture with Sian Walters ‘The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Fra Angelico’s High Altarpiece for San Domenico, Fiesole
Fra Angelico’s paintings in San Marco are without doubt some of the
most celebrated and popular works of the Florentine quattrocento,
and yet the beautiful high altarpiece for the church of San Domenico
in Fiesole is less well-known and rarely visited. It is a painting with
an intriguing story, just one of a number of magnificent panels com-
missioned in the 1420s and early 1430s for the convent to which Fra
Angelico had been admitted as a boy, and yet the sole survivor to have
remained in situ.
It is probable that the commission for the altarpiece came about
thanks to a large bequest made by a certain Barnaba degli Agli, whi-
ch enabled the friars to complete both the structure and decoration
of the church. Indeed the patron’s titular saint St Barnabus can be
seen in a prominent position at the right hand of the Virgin Mary, the
so-called place of honour. Two of his sons also appear in the predella,
one of Fra Angelico’s most delightful paintings which includes a stel-
lar cast of nearly 300 angels, saints and Dominican “beati”, nearly all
of whom can be identified individually.
The altarpiece is one of the artist’s most important early works and
yet it has been subject to a number of radical changes, revealing dra-
matic evidence of periods of changing fashion and religious uphea-
val. Fra Angelico’s other masterpieces in the church have also been
affected by the vicissitudes of time and now grace the walls of some
of the most prestigious museums around the world such as the Prado
and the Louvre. Why were they removed, and why does only the high
altarpiece remain? And why was appearance of the latter altered?
Using detailed close-ups and images of technical analysis we look at
its gradual metamorphosis and put together the pieces of the detecti-
ve story that surrounds both the painting and its context.
Siân Walters is an art historian and a lecturer at the National Gal-
lery in London. She also lectures for NADFAS, Surrey University and
many other art societies in the UK and Europe, and is the director and
founder of Art History in Focus, a company which organises lectures,
study days and art holidays abroad. As well as running Art History in Add to your calendar
Focus she spends much of the year lecturing abroad, particularly in
Italy and Spain, and is well known for her enthusiastic, structured yet
informal approach. She also runs art and architecture tours for other
companies and organisations, such as the Friends of the Royal Aca-
demy, and was recently nominated for the Daily Telegraph “World’s
Best Guide” Award.
Her specialist areas are 15th and 16th century Italian Art, Spanish Art
and Architecture, and the relationship between Dance and Art (she
is an honorary advisor to the Nonsuch Historical Dance Society). She
has given many lectures on this subject for the National Gallery, in-
cluding a number of events in conjunction with the gallery’s “Renais-
sance Siena”, “Sacred Made Real”, and “Canaletto and his Rivals”
exhibitions. A special lecture in conjunction with the recent Leonardo
da Vinci exhibition was also recently commissioned by the gallery, as
one of a small number of Friday evening talks given talks by Leonardo
specialists and academics. Last year Siân was asked to represent the
National Gallery at the international Hay Festival where she gave a
number of presentations on the gallery’s recent Titian acquisitions.
She was also invited to give the prestigious annual T Rowland Hu-
ghes Lecture at the University of Wales, which in recent years has
been given by leading figures in the art world such as Neil Macgregor,
Sir Roy Strong and Sir Kyffin Williams.
Siân studied music as well as art history: she was awarded a choral
exhibition at Cambridge University and a 1st for her dissertation on
the paintings of the composer Arnold Schoenberg, and has appeared
in a film about Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. She has lived in France
and Italy where she worked for the eminent Haydn scholar H.C. Rob-
bins Landon and for the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice.
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Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
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tuesday, April 21th
An exclusive experience at the Giardino Torrigiani.
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Time 11.00 amWhere Palazzo TorrigianiCost € 60 per person, minimum 6 participants requiredRSPV by April 15
The day will begin with a Private Visit of the Giardini Torrigiani The
Torrigiani garden with nearly seventeen acres hidden in the heart
of Florence, is the largest privately owned garden in Europe situa-
ted within city boundaries.
Renowned in the sixteenth century as a botanical garden it had a
revival in the early nineteenth century when the Marquis Pietro
Torrigiani inherited the property and started acquiring the sur-
rounding land. This he transformed into a ‘romantic park’ in the
english style, adhering to the fashion of the time, which covered
an area of 25 acres.
The architect Luigi de Cambray Digny, who had recently renova-
ted the Oricellari gardens to much acclaim was commissioned to
re-design the garden.This he accomplished cleverly combining na-
tural elements with artificially made landscaping and managing to
include many symbols of an esoteric nature. Members are invited
to explore these beautiful private gardens guided by the Marchese
Torrigiani Malaspina.
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thursday, April 23rd
Art History Lecture with Rocky Ruggiero, “Il Gigante”The Evolution of the David Image in Florence
Rocky Ruggiero is originally from Providence, RI. He is a graduate
of the College of the Holy Cross where he majored in Art History
and Pre- Medicine. In 1995 he was awarded a Florence Fellow-
ship by Syracuse University where he continued his art historical
studies at a graduate level. He has lived in Florence for the past
twelve years teaching for various American universities including
Syracuse, Kent. St., Vanderbilt and Boston College. Prof. Rug-
giero specializes in Early Renaissance Architecture, although he
has lectured on subjects ranging from ancient art and architectu-
re through the Italian Baroque. He starred in the recent History
Channel series, Engineering an Empire: Da Vinci World episode as
an expert witness, as well as a PBS program on the architecture of
Brunelleschi. He also shares his knowledge and love of Florentine
art as an advisory board member of the non- pro_ t group Friends
of Florence which has raised funds for the estoration of various
works of art throughout the city.
Add to your calendar
Time 6.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni, Club Lounge
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Private Visit of the Emilio Pucci Foundation with Curator Ales-
sandra Arezzi Boza, located in Palazzo Pucci Headquarters of the
brand and home to the Pucci family with a welcome by Laudomia
Pucci.
friday, April 24TH
Private Visit of the Emilio Pucci Foundation
Time 10.15 amCost € 150.00 per person, 6 person minimunRSVP by April 18
Add to your calendar
Confirm
friday, April 24TH
Visit of Bronze Exhibition at Palazzo Tornabuoni followed by a Bronze Themed Tour of the City with Art Historian Rocky Ruggiero
This talk looks at newly discovered archival material which helps
to shed some light on Bardini’s methods of restoring objects be-
fore he sold them, and in some cases the radical extent to which
these objects were modified and transformed.
monday, April 27TH
Art History Lecture with Lynn Catterson, Secrets of the Archive. Stefano Bardini & his Restoration Practice
Time 6.30 pmWhere Sala delle Muse
Add to your calendar
Time 10.30 am - 1.30 pmWhere Palazzo Tornabuoni and Throughout the City Cost € 70.00 per person
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tuesday, April 28th
Tour and luncheon at the Marinelli Foundry
Time 1.00 pmWhere Marinelli FoundryCost € 50.00 per personRSPV by April 18
Add to your calendar
Confirm
A tour of the ancient process of lost wax bronzes, the same used during the Hellenistic Period of the pieces in the Strozzi show.
Followed by a champagne luncheon in the largest private library of original casts at the FAFM foundry in Poggibonsi.
wednesday, April 29th
Private Visit and Aperitivo at the home of Florentine Photographer Massimo Listri
Time 7.00 pmWhere Via Sant Agostino 1RSPV by April 20 Add to your calendar Confirm
Massimo Listri in 1953 began his career as a photographer at a very young age. At 17 he was collaborating with numerous magazines dedicated
to Art and Architecture. During his university years he studied Arts and Letters and continued to expand his work, contributing numerous
photographic services to publications devoted to Art, Architecture, and Interior Design. In 1981 Massimo founded the internationally renowned
magazine and art books FMR, with the publisher Franco Maria Ricci and Vittorio Sgarbi. For 20 years this beautiful magazine served as the
major vehicle for the expression of Massimo’s photographic essays of the most beautiful Palaces, Villas, Interior Design, and Architecture from
all periods. In thirty years Massimo has published more than 60 books with the most prestigious publishers in Europe and the United States.
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Restaurant & Bar10% discount on all consumptions with the exception of special even-
ts, brunch and catering services.
Laundry50% discount on the published Hotel price list, delivery within 24
hours.
SPA10% discount on a single Spa Treatment.
Personalised treatment packages for Palazzo Tornabuoni Members
can be used at your convenience, with no expiry date. For the detailed
price list please refer to the Residential Services Team.
HairdresserPlease refer to the Residential Services Team for the special price list
applicable.
Pool Access For Friends accompanied by a Member but not staying at the Palazzo
or Whole Owner Members that may not have purchased the annual
Membership that includes access to the Gym and Pool, the following
applies
10% discount on the published prices of individual Pool daily access
packages:
• 20 daily accesses € 1200.00
• 10 daily accesses € 700.00
Single Access at € 60.00 instead of € 80.00
Whole Owner MembersFor our Whole Owner Members the Hotel can offer annual Member-
ships for Access to the Gym and Pool at € 2500.00 per person instead of
€ 3500.00 per person
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Four Seasons Benefits for PALAZZO TORNABUONI Members
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Dear Members,In collaboration with the Four Seasons Hotel Florence I am happy to share with you the new enhanced benefits granted to all our Members while staying at Palazzo Tornabuoni.
I hope you will enjoy these special services.
Kind Regards
PresidentClub Palazzo Tornabuoni
Riccardo Maccolini
Via degli Strozzi, 8 - 50123 Firenze, Italyph. +39 055 268 966
Gabrielle Maria TaylorAttaché and Events Services
cell. +39 366 652 [email protected]
www.palazzotornabuoni.com