Sunday, May 8, 2022

Pietà

Pietà (Piety) by Francesco Vezzoli, Piazza della Signoria, Florence

“Pietà” (Piety) by Francesco Vezzoli, 2021
Piazza della Signoria
Florence, December 2021

“After his exhibition in the city in 2014, Francesco Vezzoli returns to Florence to take on its most symbolic places: Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio, in the wake of a project that has seen famous international artists as protagonists in recent years. Piazza della Signoria hosts the work ‘Pietà’ (2021), a monumental twentieth-century rampant lion installed on an ancient base crushes the head of a Roman from the second century AD between its jaws in a pastiche between different artistic eras which has become the hallmark of many recent works by the artist.” (Francesco Vezzoli in Florence, Mousse Magazine)

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