Guided tour in Florence and to the exhibition: Florence and the Baroque: Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the birth of the Baroque portrait.

Museo del Bargello - Firenze
April 3– July 12, 2009

The portrait sculpture was conceived in the sixteenth century mainly as a state-portrait with a strong official task. Thanks to Bernini, it progresses from stern and formal images to figures which seem to breathe and even converse with the viewer. They are the so-called “talking portraits”.

The exhibition presents a direct and fascinating comparison with several works by the major protagonists of painting of the time who were active in Rome (Rubens, Carracci, van Dyck, Velasquez, Vouet, Valentin de Boulogne, Pietro da Cortona).

The visit will be conducted by an official guide and completed by other examples of the Baroque in Florence such as the tomb of Galileo Galilei and the Corsini palace.

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