Firenze Museo Stefano Bardini

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Firenze
Museo Stefano Bardini
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The Bardini museum is named after its creator,
Stefano Bardini (1854-1922), the most
authoritative Italian antiquarian, who, after
years of intense business activity, decided to
transform his collection into a museum and donate
it to the Municipality of Florence. The palazzo
where the museum is housed was bought and
renovated by Bardini himself in 1881 so he could
carry out his antique business. With some changes
to the structure and the addition of some
authentic architectural elements such as
tympanums, portals and stairs, the antiquarian
Bardini transformed the old building, once the
church and convent of San Gregorio della Pace,
into a charming neo-Renaissance palazzo suitable
for housing not only the exhibition gallery but
also a series of laboratories where the works of
art were restored, ready to be sold.
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Stefano Bardini (18361922) was an Italian
connoisseur and art dealer in Florence who
specialized in Italian paintings, Renaissance
sculpture, cassoni and other Renaissance and
Cinquecento furnishings and architectural
fragments that came on the market during the
urbanistic reorganization of Florence in the
1860s and 70s
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Museo Stefano Bardini Ingresso
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sale al pianterreno
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Museo Stefano Bardini Ingresso e Sale al
pianterreno
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Museo Stefano Bardini Couple of lions coming from
Lucca -13th century
Museo Stefano Bardini Nicola Pisano (1220/1225
c. 1284), Mensola
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Museo Stefano Bardini Head of a jung man Roman era
Head of Herma Greek era
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Museo Stefano Bardini Tino di Camaino (c. 1280
c. 1337), 'Carità'
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Museo Stefano Bardini Tino di Camaino
(c.1280-c.1337), 'Carità'
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Museo Stefano Bardini
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sale al pianterreno
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala dArmi
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala dArmi
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala dArmi
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Museo Stefano Bardini Head of dragon coming from
a ship
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala dArmi
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala dArmi
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala delle cornici e
accesso alla sala dei bronzi
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala delle cornici e
accesso alla sala dei bronzi
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Jar in terracotta - Montelupo manufactory 18th
century
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Museo Stefano Bardini Andrea della Robbia -
Glazed Terracotta
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Museo Stefano Bardini Crucifix painted by
Bernardo Daddi around 1340 (4.76 x 4.20 metres )
according to experts should be the crucifix
disappeared from the cathedral of Florence in the
mid of the 15th century. Unfortunately,
documentation is nonexistent. Nor is it known how
Bardini procured it, from whom, and at what
price. The only proof is a few photographs taken
around 1888the year in which Bardini inaugurated
his commercial atelier in Piazza dei Mozzi.
According to restoration criteria of the time, he
had the end pieceswhich were probably
damagedsubstituted with fragments from another
work, obtaining a sort of antiquity pastiche,
however majestic, but always refusing to sell it.
Since then, the crucifix has remained in his
atelier, now the museum.
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Scalone di accesso alla Sala delle Madonne
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala delle Madonne
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala delle Madonne
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Museo Stefano Bardini Collection of old chests
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
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Donatello, 'Madonna col Bambino e angeli', detta
'Madonna dei Cordai'
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Museo Stefano Bardini La Madonna della Mela è
un'opera in terracotta attribuita a Donatello o a
Luca della Robbia
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala del terrazzo
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Painted terracotta depiction of the Virgin post
Annunciation dressed as a fashionable early
15th Century Sienese teenager
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala del terrazzo Cassone
della bottega del Pollaiolo
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Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo, St Michael and
the Dragon
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Museo Stefano Bardini Sala del Tiepolo
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Museo Stefano Bardini Giovanni Francesco
Barbieri detto il Guercino (1591-1666)Atlante
che sostiene il globo celeste, 1646
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Museo Stefano Bardini Scalone dei tappeti
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Museo Stefano Bardini Fresco
Museo Stefano Bardini Rotella da pompa o da
carosello con 'Orazio Coclide'
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Among Bardinis customers were the most
prestigious collectors in the world and some of
the ideas he used for the museum layout were
widely imitated. The splendid blue colour of the
interior was replicated by the couple
Jacquemart-André and by Isabella Stewart Gardner
in Boston. In 1925 the Bardini Museum became a
civic museum and pieces from the Council
collections were added to the works purchased by
Bardini. Also on display in the same room are
important works belonging to the City Council
such as Il Porcellino (the Piglet) by Pietro
Tacca and the Diavolino, or Satyr, by Giambologna.
Museo Stefano Bardini Diavolino Giambologna
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Porcellino (Wild boar ) fountain in broze made by
Pietro Tacca pupil of Giambologna in 1612. A copy
is under the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo near
Palazzo Vecchio. Tourists visiting the city have
always had the habit of touching the snout of the
worldwide famous boar, as it is said to bring
good luck. Copy can be found in Australia,
Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain,
USA
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Presentation Sanda Foisoreanu
2013
Sound Mario Frangoulis - Vinceró Perderó