Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; New Exhibit Space (Hall of the First Facade)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; New Exhibit Space (Hall of the First Facade)
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Alternate Title:
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Museo dell'Opera del Duomo; Salone del Paradiso
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Image View:
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Some of the original sculptures are displayed in front of the facade because their position is not known, or simply for an eye-level view, with copies replacing them in the facade context
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Creator:
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Adolfo Natalini (Italian architect, born 1941); Guicciardini & Magni Architetti (Italian architectural firm, founded 1990)
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Location:
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repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza del Duomo, 9
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GPS:
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+43.772333+11.256222
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Date:
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opened 2015 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Gothic (Medieval); Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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façade
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Work Type 2:
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museum
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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resin; plaster; steel; glass
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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3,600 m2 (area, new exhibit space, total)
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Subjects:
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architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); Museology; Restoration and conservation; museum exhibition design; interior design
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Description:
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The new display area for the museum is situated in the former Teatro degli Intrepidi, a theatre which opened in 1779, closed down and was turned into a warehouse in 1914. The theatre's large empty central space has been converted into a top-lit area in which to allow recreations of now lost architecture to interact with the works of art that once adorned it. It boasts a life-size model of the cathedral's first (lower) façade (1296- ca. 1412) rebuilt "from life" (based on a drawing by Poccetti) using a resin frame filled with marble dust on a metal structure which seeks to convey an image of the original façade rather than to pose as a full-fledged recreation of it. The original facade was dismantled in 1587, and the original sculpture moved to an earlier museum. (Source: Verdon, Timothy; The New Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Vol. 18, No. 2)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-CAMBIO-MD-MGT-A09
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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