Social Program
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All registered participants are invited to the Opening Ceremony in
Palazzo Vecchio Salone dei Cinquecento and Welcome Cocktail in
Palazzo Borghese via Ghibellina, 110 on May 16th 2008.
Admission only for preregistered participants. Music There will be chamber music by Dr. Alina Rubistein and instrumentallists at lunch on Saturday at the Villa La Pietra and a piano recital at the Gala Banquet in Palazzo Budini Gattai by Dr. Louis Nagel. Gala Banquet On May 17, 2008, Saturday evening there will be a Gala Banquet, with cocktails, dinner and a musicale. The dinner will be held in the Palazzo Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51, a very beautiful historic palace with an Italian style garden. The palace is in the city centre and the dinner will start at 08:30 p.m. Reservation and payment will be requested in advance: the cost is 80,00 Euros per person. You will receive the admission tickets with the symposium kit at the Secretariat Desk. Museum Visit A special and exclusive English guided museum visit will be organized on Friday May 16 for all registered participants of the Symposium in the Bargello National Museum, Via del Proconsolo, 4. Time: entrance 6:00pm – end of the visit 8:00pm. Please arrive in time to partecipate in the tours. Accompanying person’s program Friday May 16 afternoon: The Museum of the Opera del Duomo and Medici Riccardi Palace. Meeting point: Palazzo Borghese h. 2:00pm end of the tour 5:00pm The museum was founded in 1891 and has continued to receive the works that were removed from the Cathedral and the Baptistery. Very important scupltures inside like two “Cantorie” by Luca della Robbia and Donatello, with also the famous wooden sculpture Magdalene of Donatello and the Pieta’ by Michelangelo. Medici Riccardi Palace was built in 1444 by Michelozzo, following models of Brunelleschi. The most important works consisted in the large hall decorated with the frescoes of Luca Giordano and in the Chapel frescoed in 1459 by Benozzo Gozzoli with the Procession of the Magi. Saturday May 17 morning: Palazzo Vecchio Apartments, The Museum of Palazzo Davanzati and S.S. Apostoli Church. Meeting point: Piazza Signoria, Equestrian Monument of Duke CosimoI Medici h. 10:00am. End of the tour 1:00pm The Palazzo Vecchio was once home to the various Florentine republican governments (and today to the municipal government). Cosimo I and his ducal Medici family moved to the palazzo in 1540 and engaged in massive redecoration. Michelozzo's 1453 courtyard just through the door was left architecturally intact but frescoed by Vasari with scenes of Austrian cities to celebrate the 1565 marriage of Francesco de' Medici and Joanna of Austria. The grand staircase leads up to the Salone dei Cinquecento and to the Apartments with the Studiolo di Francesco I, the Quartiere degli Elementi and the Eleonora di Toledo’rooms. The Palazzo Davanzati, built around the mid-14th century, was purchased in 1578 by the Davanzati family. Its most important feature is the architectural structure that represents an interesting example of 13th century home showing the transition stage from the medieval tower house to the Renaissance building. Special Invitation Dr. Pina Ragionieri, the Director of Casa Buonarroti Museum, has invited the participants to visit Casa Buonarroti on Sunday afternoon, after the close of the symposium. She will be at the museum to welcome and guide the visitors. |
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