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In Florence, I learned to distinguish between the art of craftsmen, which was of great refinement, and the art of artists, in which something else was reflected: genius, exception, novelty. .
The writer Jean-Christophe Rufin brings us back here to the universality of Florentine know-how.
It is for this small Tuscan town, where genius artists have converged for millennia, that the
Pietà Bandini
was created, 470 years ago and restored in 2021.
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Michelangelo's Pietà Bandini
restored in public in Florence
From the hands of Michelangelo to that of Cosimo III de Medici through those of Antonio da Casteldurante, from Rome to Florence and along the Arno,
La Pietà Bandini
has traveled according to the desires of each of its owners.
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The traumatic events related by historians and its history, which consist of numerous changes of hands and places, have made this sculptural group an enigmatic work, remarkably difficult to study and understand in the details of its execution, and which inevitably
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