MEMBERSHIP PORTAL
The Italian Chapter of the Society for the History of Collecting
is pleased to invite you to a special visit of the exhibition The Jews, the Medici, and the Ghetto of Florence, conducted by one of its three curators, Alice S. Legé.
Wednesday, 6th December, 3.30pm (CET)
Drawing on the extraordinary artistic patrimony of the Uffizi Galleries and other important collections, including relevant loans from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and the Bode Museum in Berlin, this exhibition sheds significant new light on a fundamental chapter of the Medici and Jewish history. Founded by Cosimo I de’ Medici in 1570, the Ghetto of Florence was the centre of gravity of Florence’s Judaism for almost two centuries. Fruit of a complex political and economic strategy, the ghetto was a place of segregation, but also a rich human, cultural and spiritual microcosm. The six sections of the exhibition, chronologically stretching from 1437 to 1938, are the result of a ten-year long research program conducted by the Medici Archive Project, which included a detailed 3D reconstruction of the ghetto. Through a clear and documented narration, aimed at both the public and the scientific community, the exhibition intends to clarify the ties that bind the Jews to the Grand Dukedom, in a context of conflict, diplomacy and cultural exchanges.
This tour will be conducted in Italian. Please register by 1 December.
Price: Standard ticket (https://www.uffizi.it/biglietti), earphone service offered by the Society.
Where: Palazzo Pitti, Florence, meeting point in front of the ticket office
RSVP: Please confirm your presence before November 24th (15 places available)
The Society for the History of Collecting | 2015
