There are a number of exhibitions to
choose from in Italy during the close of 2023 and first few
weeks of the New Year.
The diverse offer ranges from an in-depth look at the
construction of the early second century Trajan's Column in Rome
to a focus on the Italian Renaissance physicist and astronomer
Galileo Galilei in Florence and Maurizio Cattelan's hanging
stuffed crocodile 'Ego' at the Baptistery in Cremona.
ROME - 'Trajan's Column. The tale of a symbol' is showing at the
Colosseum Archaeological Park, organised and promoted by the
Colosseum Archaeological Park and the Galileo Museum - Institute
and Museum of the History of Science under the curatorship of
Alfonsina Russo, Federica Rinaldi, Angelica Pujia and Giovanni
Di Pasquale. On show until April 30, the project aims to
document the labour-intensive construction of the Column,
presenting the main tools used to extract the marble blocks,
transport them by boat and mount them. The exhibition also
includes reconstructions of the construction machines of the
time.
FLORENCE - 'Celestial splendours. The observation of the sky
from Galileo to gravitational waves' is on display until March
17 in the former dormitory of Santa Maria Novella. On the
occasion of the 400th anniversary of the publication of
Galileo's Saggiatore - the book that laid the foundations of the
modern concept of science, based on observation and
experimentation - the exhibition, organised in conjunction with
the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), recounts Galileo's
revolutionary conception of science and the fundamental
discoveries of the Tuscan scientist in a way that is accessible
to visitors of all ages.
CREMONA - It is possible to visit Maurizio Cattelan's large
taxidermied crocodile Ego at the Baptistery of San Giovanni
Battista until January 14: the work was specially created by the
controversial Italian contemporary artist for the first edition
of Cremona Contemporanea - Art Week, curated by Rossella
Farinotti.
Other exhibitions to look out for include 'Divine Children'
featuring three sculptures dating from the 15th to the 18th
centuries in the Sala delle Udienze in Palazzo Vecchio,
Florence, until January 28; Ospiti a palazzo. Figure in posa e
al naturale, an exhibition dedicated to portraits at Palazzo
Martinengo di Villagana in Brescia until January 20; and Stelle
che sorreggono altre stelle by Lucia Cantò at the Fondazione
Elpis in Milan.
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