Sergio's friend makes an encore! Once there he is on stage in Fiesole Pontassieve. For the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy under the guidance of his friend Lystra
“Pontassieve, anche qui Risorgimento - la Toscana e l’Unità d’Italia” , – organizzata per le celebrazioni del 150° anniversario dell’Unità d’Italia , con gli interventi, oltre che dell’Autore, del Sindaco Marco Mairaghi, del Prefetto di Firenze Paolo Padoin, dell’Assessore alla Cultura Alessandro Sarti, the Superintendent of the State Museums Cristina Acidini and art historian Daniela Fontanazza. The lecture will be delivered by Pier Francesco critical Lystra, art critic and curator of the exhibition. These works created especially for this important event and that trace the process of Italian unification as seen from the particular point of view of Tuscany and especially seen through the eyes an artist of contemporary deeply convinced of the painting can still be done in favor of a rediscovery of a reassessment and reflection
on fundamental values \u200b\u200bof an Italy
truly united. The exhibition focuses on five large canvases, many preparatory drawings and fifteen of studies, sketches and enlarged details, for a total of 25 works. The Artist
recounts here the most salient episodes of the Renaissance Tuscan starting from 'Boarding in Livorno Tuscan volunteers for the expedition of the Thousand ", moving from the" Battle of Pontefract " a review of that masterpiece of Guttuso with his "Battle of the Bridge of the Admiral, now in the Uffizi, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, until the " The Battle of Florence "who narrates the expulsion of the Nazis from the city in 1945
as completing the unification of Italy and final act of the Risorgimento. not missing in this review a theme dear and popular by the Florentine master, who with "Anita and Giuseppe Garibaldi in love" outlines an original profile of the two main characters. In fact, in the vast iconography of Garibaldi is not common to meet a tenderly embraced her Anita Garibaldi, in front of an endless landscape of mountains, countryside and even seas, representing the whole of Italy, without forgetting a small view of Pontefract . The hero of two worlds is intent on showing his beloved scrolls and writing paper, perhaps
plans or maps, as if to make the beloved sharer of the great dream unit, even to design it with him. ;
Sergio Nardoni was born in Florence in 1947. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and the first to devote himself exclusively to painting, was a professor at the Florence location of Rutgers University.
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