Literary Museums at Home
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Museums and Ideas
- Pages: 171 p.
- Size:220 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:25 b/w, 80 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2020
- € 75,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-58325-9
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BIO
Timothy Verdon is director of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence. Monsignor Timothy Verdon, a Canon of the city’s cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, is also Director of the Office of Sacred Art of the Florentine Archdiocese and former Consultor of the Vatican Commission of Church Heritage. Author of numerous books and articles on Christian art, Verdon, who has a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and has been a Fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti (Florence), is Robert and Katherine Burke Instructor in Art History at Stanford University’s Bing Center in Florence, Italy. Verdon, who has organized major exhibitions at Turin, Washington, D. C., Seoul and New York City, furnished the installation project of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, enlarged and entirely renovated in 2012–2015.
Rita Filardi is an experienced museum professional and art historian, she has been working in museums and the temporary exhibitions field since 1995. Since her arrival in 2012 at the Museum of the Opera del Duomo, she has been Collection Registrar, Assistant to the Director and currently she is Collection Manager, overseeing the condition and the records of 750 artworks of the museum.
Summary
Do 21st-century women and men still believe that museums can, through the way they display art, help shape their visitors’ sense of the dignity of the person? Through the readings of history and style which they propose, can museums help bridge the gap that today seems to separate present from past, isolating individuals and groups in a contemporaneity without roots? If so, how? If not, why?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OPENING MESSAGES
Sergio Givone
Vice President of Opera Santa Maria del Fiore
Alberto Bonisole
Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities
Antonio Lampis
General Director of Museums
Antonio Paolucci
Former Minister of Culture, Italy
Former Director of the Musei Vaticani
Foreword: Florence, Museums, Museology and Values
Timothy Verdon
Director, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
Rita Filardi
Collection Manager, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
KEY TEXTS
THE MUSEUM YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Museums Change Lives
Timothy Verdon
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
Museums and Values
James Bradburne
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Museum: Where are we from? Who are we? Where are we going?
Michail Borisovich Piotrovsky
General Director of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
President of the Union of Museums of Russia
Unity in Diversity
One Louvre, Several Louvre Museums in the Twenty-First Century
Jean-Luc Martinez
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Future of Museums
Julien Chapuis
Skulpturensammlung und Museum fr Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Museology and Values
Art and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century
Maria Serlupi Crescenzi
Musei Vaticani, Rome
ROUND TABLE SESSION
OTHER CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
Reanimating Sacred Art for a Secular Age: Art & Religion at the National Gallery, London
Susanna Avery-Quash
Senior Research Curator (History of Collecting), The National Gallery, London
Visitor Engagement: Designing Dignity
Allen Quine
The Museum of the Bible, Washington D.C.
The Museum Considered as a Moral Institution
Suggestions from Schiller Theory of Theater
Eike Schmidt
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence
Competing Values
Cristina Acidini
Academy of Design Arts, Florence
Presenting Roles and Challenges of Curating Islamic Art in Qatar
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Best Practice: The Galleria dellafter the Reform of 2015
Cecilie Hollberg
Galleria dellAccademia, Florence
What Is a Museum?
Christian Greco
Museo Egizio, Turin
Six Dreams for an Art Museum
Ulrike Lorenz
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Prestigious Collections, New Audiences
Paola Marini
Galleria dellAccademia, Florence
ROUND TABLE SESSION
THE VIEWPOINT OF ARCHITECTS AND MUSEOLOGISTS
Doubts and Questions
Adolfo Natalini
Natalini Architetti, Florence
The Museum and the Form of Contemporaneity
Paolo Biscottini
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
The Museum of the Duomo of Milan
Guido Canali
Canali Associates
The Museum
Maria Concetta Di Natale
Università degli Studi, Palermo
The Museum We Believe In
Marco Magni
Guicciardini & Magni Architetti
Confessions of an Exhibition Designer
Boris Micka
BMA Boris Micka Associates, Spain
The 'Caring Museum'
A New Proposal for an Inclusive Museum
Adeline Rispal
Studio Adeline Rispal, Paris
Identity and Mission
Authors Biographies
