On display at the Pitti Palace is the Golden Chariot by Johann Paul Schor

by Redazione , published on 15/02/2019
Categories: Exhibitions / Disclaimer
From February 20 to May 5, 2019, Palazzo Pitti in Florence will host an exhibition focusing on Johann Paul Schor's Golden Chariot.

From February 20 to May 5, 2019, the Sala delle Nicchie at the Pitti Palace in Florence will host the exhibition Johann Paul Schor’s The Golden Chariot. The Ephemeral Splendor of Baroque Carnivals.

The exhibition will focus on the image of Prince Giovanni Battista Borghese ’s lavish masquerade for the Roman carnival of 1664. The particular event was immortalized by Johann Paul Schor, a collaborator of Pietro da Cortona and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in a large painting purchased in 2017 by the Uffizi Galleries for the future Carriage Museum in the Pitti Palace. The work will be displayed alongside Filippo Gagliardi and Filippo Lauri’s spectacular Giostra dei Caroselli, exceptionally loaned by the Museo di Roma at Palazzo Braschi. In a nighttime setting, illuminated by hundreds of torches, the masquerade staged in honor of Queen Christina of Sweden’s triumphal entry into the Urbe, was enlivened by triumphal floats and masked characters, with plumes like colorful explosions. The exhibition will also feature drawings, objects, and engravings (including a selection of Jacques Callot’s Dances of Sfessania ), to relive the magic, dazzling ephemera, exaggerations, and costumes of carnivals and festivals in the 17th century.

The exhibition is curated by Alessandra Griffo and Maria Matilde Simari.

For info: www.uffizi.it

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 8:15 a.m. to 6:50 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Until Feb. 28 full 10 euros, reduced 5 euros. From March 1 to May 5, full 16 euros, reduced 8 euros.

Image: Johann Paul Schor, Allegorical Chariot of Prince Giovanni Battista Borghese (1664; oil on canvas, 122 x 317 cm)

On display at the Pitti Palace is the Golden Chariot by Johann Paul Schor
On display at the Pitti Palace is the Golden Chariot by Johann Paul Schor


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