{"id":6521,"date":"2020-10-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italics.art\/tip\/brunelleschi-and-the-wolves\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T17:45:53","slug":"brunelleschi-and-the-wolves","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/italics.art\/en\/tip\/brunelleschi-and-the-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunelleschi and the wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A pack of ravenous wolves is on its way to Piazza de&#8217; Pitti in Florence&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This phrase seems to be the beginning of a dystopian tale containing a premonition of the disastrous effects of the conflictual relationship between nature and man; instead, it is a reference to the installation, Wolves Coming, by the Chinese sculptor Liu Ruowang (1977), one of the best emerging artists of the Far East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The iron wolves growl threateningly towards the Palazzo\u2019s fa\u00e7ade, the famous rusticated fa\u00e7ade designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. Liu&#8217;s intention is evidently to juxtapose the monumental and harmonious bulk of Brunelleschi&#8217;s fa\u00e7ade with the disruptive arrival of the destruction brought by the wolves, in response, let it be clear, to man&#8217;s predatory behavior \u2013 by now devoid of any rational balance \u2013 towards the environment. However, the link between the plastic and majestic representation of the wolves and the tradition of Florentine art, always oriented towards the description of the natural world, is also evident. For centuries, wild beasts have populated the poetic digressions of artists and intellectuals on the banks of the Arno. From Pietro Tacca\u2019s Porcellino \u2013 a wild boar, not at all tame \u2013 to the hippopotamus that Cosimo III had embalmed and exhibited at Boboli, the wolves coming today from Ponte Vecchio are the heirs of many other wonders of nature, recurring in the past in the life and art of Florence, and the incarnation of a Dionysian spirit evident in the life of the city, which in no way manages to recognize itself in the rational \u2013 and Renaissance \u2013 measure of urban spaces.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Salamon-TIP-LIBERO-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Salamon-TIP-LIBERO-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Salamon-TIP-LIBERO-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Salamon-TIP-LIBERO-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Salamon-TIP-LIBERO-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Liu Ruowang, Piazza de&#8217; Pitti, Florence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pack of ravenous wolves is on its way to Piazza de&#8217; Pitti in Florence&#8230; This phrase seems to be the beginning of a dystopian tale containing a premonition of the disastrous effects of the conflictual relationship between nature and man; instead, it is a reference to the installation, Wolves Coming, by the Chinese sculptor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6514,"template":"","categories":[197,97,96],"tags":[251,281,95],"class_list":["post-6521","tip","type-tip","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-culture","tag-florence","tag-museums","tag-tuscany","gallerist-matteo-salamon-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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