In World
Miriam Schapiro is s pioneer in feminist art who reevaluates roles assigned to women and art and society.
Schapiro embraces crafts traditionally associated with women, and uses them as a foundation for her art in an attempt to give further credence to the role that women have played in the history of art.
For the first time in years, two versions of Van Gogh's The bedroom will be reunited in the Van Gogh Museum. The public's favourite from the Van Gogh Museum collection will be exhibited next to The bedroom from The Art Institute of Chicago, an undisputed masterpiece seldom on loan.
City: Florence
Country: Italy
Address: Piazzale degli Uffizi, 50122 Firenze
Website: www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/uffizi/
The Uffizi Gallery (Italian: Galleria degli Uffizi), one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy.
Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates - hence the name "uffizi" ("offices"). Construction was continued to Vasari's design by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti and ended in 1581.
Full-scale bronze replicas of Michelangelo’s The Night, The Day, Dusk and Dawn, all produced in the bronze foundry Fonderia d’Arte Massimo Del Chiaro in Pietrasanta are the centerpiece of “Michelangelo in Cina” a major exhibition of the Renaissance master’s works. – Six sets of the four statues by “one of the greatest artist of all time” … 24 in all, will travel the four corners of the Land of the Dragon.