Word: bardazzi
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...dying years of the 1800s and the stirrings of the new century. The story of how two American collectors, Egisto Fabbri and Charles Loeser, introduced the Post-Impressionist's art to Italy, and how it influenced painters there, "could have been a film," says 19th century art scholar Francesca Bardazzi. That movie would tell "the fascinating story of two American collectors - rich, handsome, young, the first collectors of Cézanne, the first to understand...
...screenplay has yet to be written, but the drama and excitement Bardazzi describes is evident at the exhibition she has curated, "Cézanne in Florence," at the city's Palazzo Strozzi Foundation until July 29. The 16th century palace has been painstakingly restored and this, the first show since its reopening, attempts a similarly careful reconstruction of the cultural life that Fabbri and Loeser found when they bought their substantial villas in the city. Florence was one of the key stops on the European Grand Tour undertaken by many wealthy and cultured Americans of the time, and the young...
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