Real Time and the Time of Reality. Clocks at Palazzo Pitti from the 18th to the 20th centuries

Manifattura francese (Courvoiseur L. e C.), Orologio da tavolo con automi e carillon, 1810-1815, bronzo dorato, legno, cristallo e smalto, cm 40x27x17,5. Galleria Palatina, Gabinetto rotondo, particolare

From 13 Settembre 2016 to 05 Marzo 2017

Florence

Place: Palazzo Pitti - Galleria d’arte moderna

Address: piazza de' Pitti 1

Times: Tuesday to Sunday 8.15am-06.50pm

Responsibles: Simonella Condemi, Enrico Colle

Organizers:

MiBACT
Gallerie degli Uffizi
Firenze Musei

Ticket price: full € 13, reduced € 6.50

Telefono per informazioni: +39 055 2388601/616

E-Mail info: gam@polomuseale.firenze.it

Official site: http://www.gallerieuffizimostre.it/

The exhibition will comprise a significant selection of roughly eighty clocks out of the almost two hundred pieces in the Palazzo Pitti’s collection, testifying to the passage of time for those whose daily lives were played out in the Florentine palace in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The selection of these singular objets d’art will allow visitors to admire the astonishing technical and artistic quality of these timepieces in the various different forms and formats in which they were produced, revealing their duality comprising, on the one hand, an often sophisticated and complex mechanism, and on the other, a case which started out life as a cover for the mechanism but which gradually turned into a work of art in its own right.

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