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These are some of the most important 2013 art exhibitions.

The Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the arts in Florence 1400-1460
Palazzo Strozzi (Florence), March 23th – August 18th 2013

The exhibition proposes to illustrate, in theme-based sections, the origin of what is still known today as the "miracle" of the Renaissance in Florence, doing so principally through masterpieces of sculpture, the branch of figurative art in which that new season first saw the light of day.

The first section is devoted to the rediscovery of the ancient world during the "rebirth" that occurred between the 13th and 14th centuries – from Nicola Pisano to Arnolfo di Cambio and their successors – and following assimilating the expressive richness of the Gothic style.

Spanish artists in Italy In the early Mannerist period
Galleria degli uffizi (Florence), March 5th – May 26th 2013

“Thus I also say that no nation and no people (other than one or two Spaniards) can perfectly assimilate or imitate the Italian manner of painting (which is that of ancient Greece) without being immediately and easily recognised as foreigners, however much they may try or work at it”.

These words, spoken by Michelangelo Buonarroti and recorded by Francisco de Hollanda in his Roman Dialogues (Lisbon, 1548), provided the inspiration for the first exhibition ever devoted to the work of those Spanish artists who came to Italy between 1500 and the 1520s to partake of the effervescent cultural climate in Florence, Rome and Naples.
This exalted group of artists, prompted to travel by their thirst for first-hand contact with the fundamental works of modern art, included such personalities as Alonso Berruguete, Pedro Machuca, Pedro Fernández (better known as the “Pseudo-Bramantino”), Bartolomé Ordóñez and Diego de Silóe, who hailed from various different parts of the Iberian peninsula - Palencia, Toledo, Murcia and Burgos - and who proved capable of forging careers for themselves as leading players in European ‘Mannerism’.

From Boldini to De Pisis: Florence welcomes the masterpieces from Ferrara
Galleria d’arte moderna (Florence), February 19th  - May 19th 2013

The exhibition, hosted in two prestigious museum premises of the Oltrarno in Florence – The Gallery of Modern Art of Palazzo Pitti and Villa Bardini, will display an extensive selection from the museum of the Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art of Ferrara.
In Villa Bardini  the Ferrara collections will be represented by 26 works, starting from the historic Romanticism of Gaetano Turchi, Massimiliano Lodi, Girolamo Domenichini and Giovanni Pagliarini, followed by the self-portraits of leading local artists – from Giuseppe Mentessi to Giovanni Boldini – through to the symbolism of Gaetano Previati expressed in the outstanding masterpiece Paolo and Francesca (1909), inspired by Dante’s namesake canto.
The Gallery of Modern Art of Palazzo Pitti will instead display 35 works, comprising paintings and sculptures: from the literary symbolism of Giovanni Muzzioli and Gaetano Previati to the melancholic allegories in the sculptures of Angelo Conti and Arrigo Minerbi.

Luxury and Elegance
French porcelain at court and the Ginori manufactory (1800-1830)

The “Museo degli Argenti” (The Medici Treasury)
1. To mark the 40th anniversary of the inauguration of the Museo delle Porcellane in Palazzo Pitti, the Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze and the Associazione Amici di Doccia have organised an exhibition designed to highlight both the important collection in the Palazzo Pitti museum and the Doccia Manufactory's output during the Napoleonic occupation and the restoration of the House of Lorraine (1800-1830).
2. The exhibition comprises some one hundred and twenty works, mostly from the collections in Palazzo Pitti and from the Doccia Manufactory's Museo Richard-Ginori, but also from the leading Italian and French museums devoted to the art of porcelain and from several private collections.
 

Amid Medici Splendour: Pope Leo X and Florence
Museo delle Cappelle Medicee (Florence), March 25th – October 6th 2013

The Museo delle Cappelle Medicee is planning to celebrate the figure of Pope Leo X, the first Medici pope, five hundred years after his election to the Holy See.
Taking a Florentine's eye view, the exhibition tracks the life of Giovanni, Lorenzo the Magnificent's second son, from his birth in Florence in 1475 up to 9 March 1513 when he was elected to the papacy, and to his brief return home in 1515.