Florence & Sacred Art – Exhibition Treasure Of The Holy Land At Marino Marini Museum
Marino Marini Museum in Florence, Italy, presents an exhibition “The Treasure of the Hole Land” showing over hundred of artworks of sacred art.
The exhibition “Treasures of the Holy Land at the Marino Marini Museum” will take place in the Marino Marini Museum in Florence, Italy, from September 12, 2024 to January 8, 2025.
The exhibition, curated by Leila Bezzi and Jacques Charles-Gaffio, is a journey through centuries of faith and patronage, bringing together 109 works of sacred art – paintings, jewelery, garments, codices and canopies – commissioned by the most important European Catholic courts and donated to Jerusalem, including the altar of the Calvary of the Holy Sepulchre, donated in 1588 by Ferdinando I de’ Medici.
The altarpiece, a work of Domenico Portigiani, Giambologna and Pietro Francavilla, represents one of the artifacts of the greatest artistic and spiritual values which adorn the Latin nave of the Holy Sepulcher and which after almost five centuries, for the first time, has left Jerusalem to return to Italy, to be restored and exhibited.
“We are honored and proud to be hosting in Florence the treasures of one of the symbolic places of the three religious confessions” – Carlo Ferdinando Carnacini, president of the Marini San Pancrazio Foundation. – It’s more than just an exhibition, it is a great event, thanks to the priceless treasures and the altar, the most sacred work of Christianity“.
Leyla Bezzi, the curator of the exhibition, explains that the choice to bring the exhibition to the museum in Florence is dictated by the presence of the Rucellai Chapel, a masterpiece by Leon Battista Alberti, inspired by the Sepulcher of the Holy Land, the only chapel consecrated inside a museum of modern art. The collection is also a journey among the masterpieces donated by the royals, treasures from prestigious Italian museums.
