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Firenze Museo Stefano Bardini
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The Bardini museum is named after its creator, Stefano Bardini (1854-1922), the most authoritative Italian antiquarian, who, after years of intense business activity, decided to transform his collection into a museum and donate it to the Municipality of Florence. The palazzo where the museum is housed was bought and renovated by Bardini himself in 1881 so he could carry out his antique business. With some changes to the structure and the addition of some authentic architectural elements such as tympanums, portals and stairs, the antiquarian Bardini transformed the old building, once the church and convent of San Gregorio della Pace, into a charming neo-Renaissance palazzo suitable for housing not only the exhibition gallery but also a series of laboratories where the works of art were restored, ready to be sold.
Stefano Bardini (1836–1922) was an Italian connoisseur and art dealer in Florence who specialized in Italian paintings, Renaissance sculpture, cassoni and other Renaissance and Cinquecento furnishings and architectural fragments that came on the market during the urbanistic reorganization of Florence in the 1860s and 70s
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Museo Stefano BardiniCrucifix painted by Bernardo Daddi around 1340 (4.76 x 4.20 metres )according to experts should be the crucifix disappeared from the cathedral of Florence in the mid of the 15th century. Unfortunately, documentation is nonexistent. Nor is it known how Bardini procured it, from whom, and at what price. The only proof is a few photographs taken around 1888—the year in which Bardini inaugurated his commercial atelier in Piazza dei Mozzi. According to restoration criteria of the time, he had the end pieces—which were probably damaged—substituted with fragments from another work, obtaining a sort of antiquity pastiche, however majestic, but always refusing to sell it. Since then, the crucifix has remained in his atelier, now the museum.
Museo Stefano Bardini La Madonna della Mela è un'opera in terracotta attribuita a Donatello o a Luca della Robbia
Painted terracotta depiction of the Virgin – post Annunciation – dressed as a fashionable early 15th Century Sienese teenager
Museo Stefano Bardini Giovanni Francesco Barbieri detto il Guercino (1591-1666)Atlante che sostiene il globo celeste, 1646
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Museo Stefano BardiniRotella da pompa o da
carosello con 'Orazio Coclide'
Museo Stefano BardiniDiavolino Giambologna
Among Bardini’s customers were the most prestigious collectors in the world and some of the ideas he used for the museum layout were widely imitated. The splendid blue colour of the interior was replicated by the couple Jacquemart-André and by Isabella Stewart Gardner in Boston.
In 1925 the Bardini Museum became a civic museum and pieces from the Council collections were added to the works purchased by Bardini. Also on display in the same room are important works belonging to the City Council such as Il Porcellino (the Piglet) by Pietro Tacca and the Diavolino, or Satyr, by Giambologna.
Porcellino (Wild boar ) fountain in broze made by Pietro Tacca pupil of Giambologna in 1612. A copy is under the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo near Palazzo Vecchio. Tourists visiting the city have always had the habit of touching the snout of the worldwide famous boar, as it is said to bring good luck. Copy can be found in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, USA
Sound: Mario Frangoulis - Vinceró Perderó
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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu
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