Jacopo Ligozzi. “Universal Painter” (Verona, 1547 – Florence, 1627)
Palatina Museum
Until September 28, 2014
More than one hundred works will be on show, including loans from prestigious international institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the British Museum of London, the Albertina of Vienna, and the Louvre. An attempt, for the first time, to systematically illustrate the span of the painter’s activity, highlighting the various ambits he worked in and his multifaceted and versatile physiognomy on the Florentine panorama.
This exhibition, which will attempt, for the first time, to systematically illustrate the span of the painter’s activity, highlighting the various ambits he worked in and his multifaceted and versatile physiognomy on the Florentine panorama.
For this reason the exhibition is divided into thematic sections.
The first section is dedicated to the artist’s early activity at the Medici court, where from his arrival Ligozzi was highly appreciated as a draughtsman of natural history exhibits known as naturalia, for his refined production of drawings painted with watercolours or highlighted in gold. He later enjoyed the same success as a portraitist, a talented creator of decorative apparatus, a painter of history, a talented and sensitive designer of clothing, embroideries for fabrics, as well as of creations in semiprecious stones. The exhibition will also devote special attention to the theme of the ‘moral allegories’.
The second part of the show will focus on the religious production the painter devoted himself to from his years of service at the Medici court.