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Italie

L'Italie /itali/ , en forme longue la République italienne , est un pays d'Europe du Sud correspondant physiquement à une partie continentale, une péninsule située au centre de la mer Méditerranée et une partie insulaire constituée par les deux plus grandes îles de cette mer, la Sicile et la Sardaigne, et beaucoup d'autres îles plus petites . Elle est rattachée au reste du continent par le massif des Alpes. Le territoire italien correspond approximativement à la région géographique homonyme. L'Italie apporte une contribution très importante à la civilisation occidentale : elle est notamment le berceau de la civilisation étrusque, de la Grande-Grèce, de l'Empire romain, du Saint-Siège, des républiques maritimes, de l'humanisme et de la Renaissance. Existant en tant qu'État unitaire depuis 1861 à la suite du Risorgimento mené par le royaume de Sardaigne, l'Italie est une république depuis l'abolition par référendum de la monarchie italienne en 1946. Elle est membre fondateur de l'Union européenne et de la zone euro. L'Italie est, en ce début de XXIe siècle, une puissance moyenne, forte de ses soixante millions d'habitants, de sa position en 2017 de huitième puissance économique mondiale et de troisième économie de la Zone Euro, et de son rôle au sein de nombreuses organisations internationales comme l'Union européenne, l'Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, le G7 et l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Stefano Bardini

Florence

Stefano Bardini 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 urban regeneration of Florence in the 1860s and 70s.Trained as a painter and expert copyist at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze from 1854, Bardini received increasing commissions as a restorer and expanded into selling works of art from 1870 onwards. Working as a restorer Bardini, who successfully removed some Botticelli frescoes from the Villa Lemmi, was commissioned to remove the frescoes commissioned by Jakob Salomon Bartholdy from several of the German Nazarene circle of painters from Casa Bartholdy, Rome, which had been purchased by Berlin, in 1886–87. His esthetic, barely distinguishable restoration of Simone Martini's Saint Catherine of Alexandria, now in the National Gallery of Canada, has been examined as an outstanding example of the seamless restorations that his generation preferred.Many well-known works of Renaissance art bear a Bardini provenience. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, has some twenty works that passed through his hands, notably the Benedetto da Maiano Madonna and Child, the Bernardo Daddi Saint Paul and the Portrait of a Youth by Filippino Lippi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art conserves eight paintings that Bardini once owned, including Veronese's Boy with a Greyhound, and Giovanni di Paolo's Coronation of the Virgin from the Robert Lehman collection, as well as the baroque portrait bust of Ferdinando de' Medici by Giovanni Battista Foggini and an eagle lectern by Giovanni Pisano. Bardini's connections with Bernard Berenson resulted in several of Bardini's purchases finding their way to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, where Berenson was the guiding light; among them are two North Italian Romanesque stylobate, column-supporting lions and a basin, purchased from Bardini in 1897. The much-damaged marble of a curly-haired youth from the Borghese collection, employed by Stanford White as a fountain figure in the Payne Whitney house at 972 Fifth Avenue, New York City, which remained in situ as the house was bought for the French Cultural Services, then made headlines in 1996 when it was attributed as a youthful work of Michelangelo. belonged to Bardini, Stanford White's mainstay in Florence for panelling, paintings and sculpture and Renaissance furnishings, who supplied White with two 16th-century wooden ceilings reinstalled in Whitney's palazzo among the caseloads of works of art he shipped across the Atlantic to White. In the decades after 1860 he was also responsible for the transformation of many painted cassone panels that had been previously removed from the furniture, which was considered valueless, by creating new carved and part gilded walnut cassoni in the pristine condition that was required of furniture for grand houses. Of such cassoni, the quantity that came onto the market were astonishing: the German art historian Paul Schubring was shown an outbuilding, probably at Bardini's Torre del Gallo, that consisted of a single room in which he counted some 200 cassoni. The archives of the Museo Bardini make it clear that the free restorations and adaptations and imitations sold by Bardini were not misattributed; "confusion set in only half a century later when the heirs of the original owners came to sell the pieces," Ellen Callmann observes. Not all Bardini's cassoni were heavily restored: the famous cassone painted with The Conquest of Trebizond from Palazzo Strozzi, with Strozzi armorial bearings, one of the minority of cassone panels remaining integral to its cassone, is conserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.In 1881 Bardini acquired the deconsecrated church and convent of San Gregorio facing piazza dei Mozzi in the Oltrarno and set about transforming it into his opulent residence and restoration studio, Palazzo Bardini, now housing the Museo Bardini, with his collections of paintings, sculpture, most notably a marble Charity by Tino da Camaino, 15th- and 16th-century Italian furniture, ceramics, tapestry, arms; stringed and keyboard musical instruments, including one of only two surviving oval spinets by Bartolomeo Cristofori; Roman and Etruscan antiquities and 15th- and 16th-century architectural fittings, including paneled and painted ceilings, chimneypieces and door surrounds. His example inspired his most successful protégé, Elia Volpi, to purchase and freely restore Palazzo Davanzati in the heart of Florence, and fill it with a similar range of art. Bardini's extensive connections among impecunious patricians and with dealers and restorers opened many avenues for acquiring works of art. Works of art from the Giampietro Campana collection, dispersed in 1858, later passed, probably indirectly, through Bardini's hands. In 1892 Bardini was commissioned to oversee the dispersal of a major part of the Borghese Collection in Rome. In the spring of 1892 Bardini prepared a lavish catalogue for an auction sale of pieces from his own collection, held at Christie's.In 1902 he purchased the Torre del Gallo at Pian de' Giullari, in the hills of Arcetri, on top of a ridge with a panoramic view over the city. There he undertook neo-medieval restorations that were carried out between 1904 and 1906. In winding down his activities, Bardini organized a sale in New York in 1918 that dispersed his sculpture and furniture into American private collections, and which eventually came to American museums. Among the works was a polychromed terracotta of the Virgin and Child that remains firmly attributed to Donatello, "in the small class of autograph Donatello reliefs", as John Pope-Hennessy observed. Lot 427 in the sale was of two Polyclitan marble fragments, a Diadoumenos torso associated with a head possibly of Hermes, both fine Roman copies: they are now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.His bequest to the city of Florence resulted in the opening of the Museo Bardini in 1923; the Giardino Bardini across from it is also his legacy. The recent work of Lynn Catterson has corrected much of the often repeated urban legend about Bardini. See Lynn Catterson, “Stefano Bardini, His Conservative Side and the Protection of Frescoes,” in Stefano Bardini ‘estrattista;’ affreschi staccati nell’Italia Unita fra antiquariato, collezionismo e musei, Luca Ciancabilla and Cristiano Giometti, eds, Edizioni ETS Pisa, 2019, pp. 79-92. Lynn Catterson, "Art Market, Social Network and Contamination: Bardini, Bode and the Madonna Pazzi Puzzle,” in Lynn Catterson, ed, Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Social Network and the late 19C Art Market, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020. https://brill.com/view/title/56528 Lynn Catterson, “Duped or Duplicitous? Bode, Bardini and the many Madonnas of South Kensington,” Journal of the History of Collections, Spring 2020. Lynn Catterson, “From visual inventory to trophy clippings: Bardini & Co. and the use of photographs in the late 19C art market,” from the conference, The Art Market in Italy Around 1900: Actors, Archives, Photographs / Il mercato dell'arte in Italia intorno al 1900. Protagonisti, archivi, fotografie, , Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz,” Summer 2020. Lynn Catterson, “From Florence to London to New York: J.P. Morgan’s Bronze Doors,” Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, 2017, vol. 16, no. 3, Autumn; “Addendum,” vol. 18, no. 1, 2019 . Lynn Catterson, “Stefano Bardini & the Taxonomic Branding of Marketplace Style. From the Gallery of a Dealer to the Institutional Canon,” in eds. Melania Savino, Eva-Maria Troelenberg. Images of the Art Museum, Connecting Gaze and Discourse in the History of Museology, Berlin: de Gruyter GmbH, 2015, pp. 41-64. Lynn Catterson, “Stefano Bardini: Forming the Canon of Fifteenth-Century Italian Sculpture,” CENTER35, National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Record of Activities and Research Reports, June 2014 -May 2015, Washington, 2015, pp. 60-63. Lynn Catterson, “American collecting, Stefano Bardini & the Taste for TreQuattrocento Florence,” Discovering the Italian Trecento in the 19th Century, dedicated issue of Predella.it, 2017 n.41-42 . Lynn Catterson, Editor and Introductory essay, Dealing Art on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1860 to 1940, The Netherlands: Brill, 2017 .

Église du Gesù (Rome)

Latium

L'église du Gesù, ou église du Saint Nom de Jésus , est un édifice religieux catholique de Rome, en Italie, sis non loin de la piazza Venezia. Édifice emblématique de l'art jésuite, elle servit de modèle à de nombreuses églises jésuites de par le monde. Elle est aussi l'église-mère de la Compagnie de Jésus.

Prato Cathedral Museum

Prato

The Cathedral museum of Prato, Italy was founded in 1967 in a few rooms of the Bishop's residence and in 1976 grew to include items from both the Cathedral of Saint Stephen and the diocesan territory.

Musée national du palais Mansi

Lucques

Le musée national du palais Mansi est une pinacothèque située à Lucques, en Toscane. Il est situé Via Galli Tassi 43, dans un palais acquis par la famille Mansi en 1616. On y trouve une œuvre du Tintoret, Portrait de sénateur vénitien, et des tableaux de Domenico Beccafumi, de Guido Reni, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Paul Véronèse, Le Titien, Agnolo Bronzino et de peintres flamands. Léopold II de Toscane a fait don de sa collection à la ville de Lucques quand celle-ci a été annexée par le grand-duché de Toscane.

Piazza della Santissima Annunziata

Florence

La Piazza della Santissima Annunziata est une place de la ville de Florence de grande harmonie stylistique due aux bâtiments qui la bordent des plus grands architectes de la Renaissance artistique italienne, conception globale due à Filippo Brunelleschi.

Pieve Sant'Andrea de Pistoia

Pistoia

La pieve Sant'Andrea de Pistoia, est une église du VIIIe siècle dédiée à l'apôtre saint André. La structure fait partie du diocèse de Pistoia. Cette église était celle de l'ancien couvent du Tau, construit au XVe siècle pour l'Ordre hospitalier de Sant'Antonio Abate.

Église Santa Maria Formosa

Venise

L'église Santa Maria Formosa est une église catholique de Venise, en Italie.

Accademia Albertina

Turin

L'Accademia Albertina est une institution universitaire pour l'étude des beaux-arts située à Turin, en Italie.

Baptistère de Parme

Parme

Le baptistère de Parme est un monument chrétien dédicacé à saint Jean-Baptiste et destiné au rite baptismal ; disposant d’un autel il est également une église. Il se trouve sur la place commune à la cathédrale et au palais épiscopal de Parme, dans la région italienne de l’Émilie-Romagne. Il est l’œuvre de Benedetto Antelami et un magnifique exemple de la transition entre l’art roman et l’art gothique italien.