A close-up of the bust
and hands of the "Dama col mazzolino" by Andrea Del Verrocchio
, the work, preserved in Florence at the Bargello National Museum, which inspired Stefano Boeri to develop the logo of the anti-vaccination campaign. Covid.
But also a research on the 'flower that announces spring' conducted and shared by all its institutes, from libraries to archives from museums to archaeological parks: the ministry of cultural heritage and tourism led by Dario Franceschini takes the field in support of the #VaccineDay by launching a campaign on Mibact's social profiles.
A riot of primroses of different species, with yellow, orange and pink corollas.
Which are found carved on marble, printed on parchment, painted on porcelain, cataloged in ancient herbaria, described in scrupulous botanical codes.
A kaleidoscope of expressions of art ranging from primroses inlaid in the "fireplace frieze" by Francesco di Giorgio Martini at Palazzo Ducale in Gubbio, to the embroidery of a traditional costume of Calabria exhibited at the Museum of Civilizations in Rome;
from the porcelain of the Discry Manufacture to the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola in Genoa, to a 1919 postcard from the Cesare Poma Fund of the State Archives of Biella.
Primroses that are found in the Cinquecentine of the University library of Cagliari, as in the volumes on the "Italian Flora or Collection of the most beautiful plants that are grown in the gardens of Italy" of the Palatine Library of Parma or in the crown of flowers of the "Winged Nymph" of Gennaro De Crescenzo, in the neoclassical room of the Royal Palace in Naples.
All together, underlined by the ministry, "for the joint commitment of Culture in favor of the health of citizens and the revitalization of the country".