Giorgio Vasari in Arezzo – Genius and Alchemy
Saturday 26 October at 9:30 a.m. – Arezzo
Saturday 26 October at 9:30 a.m. – Arezzo
A unique experience, a continuous discovery of many small, large ‘treasures’
A secret alchemical path ideally led by a ‘special’ man and woman, the heroic way to Heaven.
Let’s explore the alchemical symbologies present in the magnificent monumental complex of Florence Cathedral and Baptistery
The tour will wind its way through the Palatine Gallery visiting the Halls of the Planets and the Stanza della Stufa
Inside Palazzo Medici, Michelozzo’s elegant architectural creation, there is a space filled with sapiential references
From the earliest antiquity, stone was considered the “dwelling place” of divinity
In the Florentine Oltrarno, there is a garden brought to life by statues and flowers, which clings to the Montecuccoli hill
Lorenzo the Magnificent’s idea was to set up a “magical” place in Piazza Santa Croce that would recreate the face of an “ideal city”, so happily conceived by the artists […]
Man has always sought contact with Heaven, in Byzantine and Russian iconographic art the painter manages to build a secret ‘mirror’ in which the Divine can manifest itself