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International Exhibition of Textile Art inspired by the Guicciardini Quilt
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This exhibition, created and organized by ‘ Il Club del Punto in Croce’ of Florence in collaboration with important city institutions,has taken place in the prestigeous 'Salone Brunelleschi' of Istituto degli Innocenti, piazza SS. Annunziata in Florence from October 14 through October 29, 2006 . It has been a very successful event.
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The Guicciardini quilt, today housed in the National Museum of the Bargello in Florence, is an example of domestic work of the prerenaissance times. Fortunately it has been so well taken care of, that the original designs can still be seen as well as the writing that accompanies these designs.During the exhibition it will be probably possible to have more information regarding the history
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and the precise dating of the quilt. In fact not much is known at present about the quilt’s history and less about its origins. A twin example is conserved in the ‘ Victoria & Albert Museum’ of London (www.vam.ac.uk collections - search the collections, then type 1391-1904). |
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It was sold to them by the same noble Guicciardini family who sold the Florentine one to the Bargello Museum, probably to be sure that the quilts would survive in the future.
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Silvana Vannini, textile arist, and the painter Marisa Sardini, both members of Il Club del Punto in Croce, have developed the project, proposed to them by the President of the association, of making a replica of the Guicciardini Quilt.This moving reproduction of the Quilt is now exhibited at the Show and hundreds of visitors remain enchanted in front of it.
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This replica will be donated to the National Museum of the Bargello in Florence or to the Museo della Casa Fiorentina. |
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