Sun, 21 March 2010
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Two top museums in Florence are exhibiting paintings and drawings from Dutch artists. The event is linked to the 50th anniversary of the Dutch University Institute for Art History, NIKI. The institute has built a reputation as an independent research centre.
By Philip Smet*Rafael and Hans Memling; Jan van Eyck and Botticelli; Rogier van der Weyden and Ghirlandaio. A grand mix of paintings from Italian and Dutch top artists from the 14th and 15th. Centuries. They have come together to decorate the walls of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, and their colours leap out at you from the canvas.
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The old Medici palace is one of the largest and most renowned museums in the Italian town. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people from across the world travel to Florence to visit the Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi Gallery. (Photo right: The last Judgment - detail - by Hans Memling) Both museums host exhibitions created by Dutchmen. At the Uffizi, the exhibition focuses on old Dutch and Flemish masters, at the Pitti, it's all about paintings. Professor Bert W. Meijer, art historian and co-creator of the two exhibitions explains:
"Many Dutch painters travelled to Italy to work there, and many Dutch works of art ended up in Italian hands because they were bought in the Netherlands by Florentine bankers".
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