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Arte a domicilio: the digital offer of Florentine Museums

 

Starting on Tuesday 24 November 2020, the Metropolitan City, the Municipality of Florence and MUS.E are promoting a packed calendar of digital events involving the Florentine museums (Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo Stefano Bardini, Museo di Santa Maria Novella, Cappella Brancacci, Museo di Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Museo Novecento, MAD – Murate Art District, World Heritage historical centre), allowing those who wish to do so to continue to visit them even during the painful closure imposed by the ongoing health emergency. A real refreshment for the museums, which in this way complements the government’s measures to restore energy to those who want it.

Arte a domicilio, Mezz’ora d’arte, Mezz’ora con Raffaello, and Talking about museums are the four proposals thanks to which art and culture, a vital refreshment especially in the current historical moment, can be brought into people’s homes every week. A set of initiatives that, realised in collaboration with Opera per Santa Maria Novella and thanks to the precious support of GIOTTO – love brand of F.I.L.A. Fabbrica Italiana Lapis ed Affini, Mukki, Unicoop Firenze, Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, and Tenderly – brand of Lucart Spa, will allow the city’s museums to renew their commitment to society, never ceasing to offer opportunities to reflect, question and learn, as well as to keep us company and read everyday life in a new way.

Opening the programme, on Tuesday 24 November, is a proposal elaborated within the framework of the Art at Home project, in dialogue with the World Heritage and UNESCO Relations Office of the City of Florence, thanks to the support of Unicoop Firenze and in line with the Wish you Were Here activity and the objectives of the European project AtlaS.WH (financed within the Interreg Atlantic Area programme), which sees the participation of four other historic European cities declared World Heritage: Porto, Santiago de Compostela, Bordeaux and Edinburgh. It is called Scorci fiorentini (Florentine Glimpses), is curated by Carlo Francini, Giaele Monaci and Valentina Zucchi, and is dedicated to the correlation between the city’s museums and the diffuse museum in the historic centre, inviting visitors to take an ideal walk through the city of the past to discover its views over the centuries. A journey through time between arts and architecture in five episodes, in which Unicoop members can participate as members, on alternate Tuesdays, always at 6.00 p.m., through the zoom platform: Medieval Florence: city gates and towers – 24 November, Renaissance Florence in the paintings of the Brancacci Chapel – 8 December, 16th-century Florence in the paintings of Palazzo Vecchio – 22 December, 18th-century Florence in the views of Giuseppe Zocchi – 5 January, 20th-century Florence in the paintings of Ottone Rosai – 19 January.

Calendar of initiatives 2020/2021

Art at home – Florentine Glimpses

24 November, h18: Medieval Florence: city gates and towers
8 December, h18: Renaissance Florence in the paintings of the Brancacci Chapel
22 December, h18: 16th Century Florence in the Paintings of Palazzo Vecchio
5 January, h18: Eighteenth Century Florence in the Views of Giuseppe Zocchi
19 January, h18: 20th Century Florence in the paintings of Ottone Rosai

 

FAQ

Why is the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site?

The Historic Centre of Florence was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982. The justification for its inscription is contained within the Statement of Outstanding Universal Value, which articulates the criteria for inscription of the site, its integrity, authenticity and the management system for its protection. The Historic Centre of Florence is considered to be a unique artistic achievement embedding museums, churches, palaces and globally renowned cultural goods of inestimable value. The city has also been able to exert an important cultural, economic and architectural influence in Italy and Europe for centuries, defining itself as the birthplace of modern Humanism and Renaissance values. The stratification of these values is also enriched by the relationship between the Historic Centre and the surrounding hills, which form a perfect harmonious backstage.

What is the area of the city of Florence inscribed on the World Heritage List?

The Core Zone inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1982 coincides with the Historic Centre of Florence, traditionally identified with the area included within the avenues corresponding to the ancient circle of the fourteenth-century walls. In 2021, a boundary modification of the perimeter was approved to include the complex of San Miniato al Monte and the surrounding area. The Buffer Zone of the site encompasses the eighteen Belvedere points and includes part of the territories of four municipalities: the Municipality of Florence, the Municipality of Sesto Fiorentino, the Municipality of Fiesole and the Municipality of Bagno a Ripoli.  

What is the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV)?

Cultural and/or natural significance that is so exceptional that it transcends national boundaries and is of common importance to present and future generations of humanity as a whole, constituting the fundamental requirement for the inscription of porperties on the World Heritage List. The properties  deemed to hold Outstanding Universal Value can be included in the World Heritage List if:

  • They satisfy one or more Selection Criteria;
  • They respect the conditions of Integrity and Authenticity;
  • They have an adequate Protection and Management System to ensure their safeguarding
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