Matteo Renzi resigns. Here is what has happened to cultural heritage in the past three years

About an hour ago Matteo Renzi made the official announcement: he will resign, so he will no longer be prime minister shortly. We at Finestre Sull’Arte have been following him since the dawn of his political career, and we started writing about him from the time when he served as mayor of Florence. His relationship with culture has been very intense. Although in a sense that we never understood as positive. He has always hated superintendencies, he has never made any secret of considering museums as money machines, he has always seen culture more as a way to generate income than as a way to develop critical thinking. Since 2013, the year we started writing about him, we go back over his relationship with art and culture with some significant articles we have dedicated to him.

Matteo Renzi and Angela Merkel at the foot of Michelangelo’s David. Photogram taken from Fanpage.it

2013

• <a href=’https://www.finestresullarte.info/69n_arte-secondo-matteo-renzi.php’ target=’_blank>The art according to Matteo Renzi: the seven “best” renzian finds in five years in office
• Matteo Renzi wins, culture loses

2014

• The new minister: everything you need to know about Dario Franceschini
• The useless superintendencies
• Managers in museums: idiocy, according to Settis. And how can you blame him?
• Santa Maria Novella and Morgan Stanley: the most repugnant aspect of the affair (and Renzian lies)
• MiBACT reform: far from revolutionary. Few good ideas, many doubts
• According to Montanari, the MiBACT reform would not be renzian. Are we really sure about this?
• MiBACT seeks free workers: unworthy, offensive, and dangerous
• >Are you thinking of going to work in an Italian museum? Don’t.
• 2 billion for the Tyrrhenian highway, that is 2 billion for a useless and harmful work
• Minister Franceschini wants to bring works of art to schools. But schools need more

2015

• If art history is to set the stage for international summits
• Not just Florence’s National Central Library: all the ministry’s cuts for 2015
• Museitaliani: MiBACT’s new (ugly) video. In which they talk about protection and enhancement
• Art history in Renzi’s good school? Hopes hanging by a thin thread. And reform slipped
• How pointless is the competition for directors of the new state museums?
• Renzi, Franceschini and Madia: scrappers of cultural heritage? Toward the dismantling of superintendencies
• Madia bill is law: huge risks for art, culture and landscape. But we hope for unconstitutionality
• Challenges and problems for new museum directors: the most important aspects
• Cultural heritage among essential public services: change of course or hypocrisy by Renzi and Franceschini?
• Businesses adopt museums: and Franceschini certifies the government’s total disinterest in culture

2016

• Cultural heritage reform, chapter 2: MiBACT’s holistic view. Against its own government
• Covered statues: here’s what we should really be ashamed of
• Un patrimonio da riconquistare, the book by Federico Giannini of Finestre Sull’Arte, is out
• Stolen works from Castelvecchio found: now more attention for our heritage
• It finally comes to an end bellezza@governo.it: yet another renzian marketing tool
• Squares, universities and monuments closed for VIP parties. But money shouldn’t buy everything
• On Castelvecchio paintings: maybe the government doesn’t care about art

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