"Homage to the Maestro Piero Tosi. The art of the costumes from the Donation Tirelli "

From 1 October 2014 until 11 January 2015 the Galleria del Costume of Palazzo Pitti hosting an exhibition dedicated to Piero Tosi in the year of achievement award an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement for the following reasons "Piero Tosi, a visionary whose incomparable costumes exceed the time doing live art in movies”.
The Master has worked for years as a theatrical costume designer, then establishing itself especially in the cinema alongside great directors, including Luchino Visconti should be mentioned, and others who have contributed to the history of Italian cinema such as Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mauro Bolognini, Liliana Cavani, Franco Zeffirelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Tosi has made use of theatrical tailors prestige, like that of Umberto Tirelli, with whom he collaborated today after many years after the death of the latter.
The sample, entitled "Tribute to Maestro Piero Tosi. The art of the costumes from the Tirelli Donation”, offers fifteen costumes of Piero Tosi; these are shown in the ballroom of the museum, in setting coordinated by Mauro Linari, and constitute a core of great historical importance and undeniable charm of the rich donation made by Umberto Tirelli Costume Gallery in 1986, including historical clothing and costumes, theatrical and film.

Among the costumes designed by Tosi which can be viewed in the exhibition include Medea (film: Medea, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, interpreter: Call Maria), Elizabeth (Sissi) (film: Ludwig, directed by Luchino Visconti, interpreter: Romy Schneider), Giuliana Hermil (film: The innocent, directed by Luchino Visconti, interpreter: Laura Antonelli); the latter two are the result of its partnership with Luchino Visconti, who gave birth to masterpieces based on a philological rigor perfect, "Which are complementary – as explained by the Director of the Galleria del Costume, Catherine Chiarelli -, revealing the complexity of expression of the Master, inventiveness and creativity unleashed by the characters atavistic, almost tribal in the film Medea ".
The sample, closed every first and last Monday of the month, will be open from 8.15 to 18.30 in October, and by 8.15 to 16.30 from November to January. Admission to the museum is free to 18 age; from 18 to 25 years is reduced; adults are charged admission.