Power and pathos. Bronzes of the Hellenistic world

From 14 March 21 June 2015 Palazzo Strozzi Florence is the first home of the great exhibition Power and pathos. Bronzes of the Hellenistic world designed and built in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum di Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Tuscany. After the stage Florentine exposure will move to J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles from 28 July al1 November 2015 and ends at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, from 6 December 2015 to the 13 March 2016.
These important partnerships confirm the reputation of excellence in international Palazzo Strozzi. The review will in fact met, for the first time in Florence, some of the greatest masterpieces of the ancient world, from the most important Italian and international archaeological museums such as the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence, il di Prado Museum Madrid, The National Archaeological Museum of Naples, the British Museum in London, il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion (Crete), the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, Vatican Museums, the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
Through 50 bronze masterpieces, Power and pathos tells the extraordinary artistic developments of the Hellenistic (IV-I century BC), period in which, around the Mediterranean basin and beyond, you stated that new forms of expression, together with a great development of the techniques, represent the first form of globalization of artistic languages ​​of the then known world. In a climate of cosmopolitanism, arte if internazionalizzava.
Curated by Jens Daehner e Kenneth Lapatin, J. Paul Getty Museum di Los Angeles, The exhibition will provide an overview of the Hellenistic world through the historical context, geographic and politico.Statue monumental deities, athletes and heroes will be joined in portraits of historical figures and sculptures in marble and stone, on a path that will lead the visitor to discover the fascinating stories of the findings of these masterpieces, most of which occurred in the sea (Mediterranean, Black Sea), or through archaeological excavations, that put the findings in relation to ancient contexts. Sanctuaries, where they were used as "votes", for Public Spaces, where commemorating people and events, alle Case, where he served as decorative elements and Cemeteries, where represented funerary symbols.
The exhibition is sponsored and organized by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, J. Paul Getty Museum di Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Tuscany, with the participation of the City of Florence, the Province of Florence, the Chamber of Commerce of Florence and the Association Partners Palazzo Strozzi and the Tuscany Region. With the contribution of the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.