Giovanni Stradano: le più strane e belle invenzioni del mondo

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Florence dedicates for the first time to the painter Giovanni Stradano (Jan van der Straet, Bruges 1523 - Florence 1605) an exhibition at Palazzo Vecchio for the five hundredth anniversary of his birth. An exceptional event for a Flemish artist who worked hard for the city in which he chose to live until the end of his eighty-two years. The exhibition displays around eighty works including paintings, drawings, prints, books, tapestries and instruments, and offers unprecedented insights into Stradano, who was Giorgio Vasari's main and most versatile collaborator in the decoration of the new rooms and the Great Hall - today the Salone dei Cinquecento - of Palazzo Vecchio.--Internet.

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(from table of contents) Presentazioni = Forewords / Dario Nardella ; Matteo Spanò -- Saggi = Essays. -- Le ragioni di una mostra. Incontrare Stradano = The reasons behind an exhibition. Meeting Stradanus / Carlo Francini -- Stradano, i Medici, Firenze e le 'più strane e belle invenzioni del mondo' = Stradanus, the Medici family, Florence and 'the most singular and beautiful inventions' / Alessandra Baroni -- Giovanni di Giovanni fiammingo, pittore in Palazzo Vecchio = Giovanni di Giovanni, a Flemish painter in Palazzo Vecchio / Valentina Zucchi -- Il 'tempo' delle 'Nova reperta' = The 'time' of the 'Nova reperta' / Samir Boumediene -- Da Stradano a Tempesta. Il Museo su carta e il collezionismo naturalistico nelle stampe del cinquecento = From Stradanus to Tempesta. The Paper Museum and collecting of naturailist prints in the sixteenth century / Fausto Barbagli -- Samuel Stradanus, incisore fiammingo nella Nuova Spagna, e gli albori dell'incisione su rame = Samuel Stradanus, a Flemish engraver in New Spain and the beginning of copperplate engraving / Clara Bargellini -- 'Conspicilla', ovvero delle lenti e degli occhiali prima di Galileo Galilei = 'Conspicilla', lenses and eyeglasses prior to Galileo Galilei / Elisabetta Baldanzi e Alessandro Farini -- Catalogo = Catalogue.