{"id":9550,"date":"2014-06-19T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T06:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2014-06-20T07:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T05:52:49","slug":"sidereus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/sidereus\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary art in the Boboli Garden &#8211; Sidereus by Domenico Bianchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A site specific work for the <a title=\"limonaia boboli\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/limonaia-boboli-gardens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Limonaia of the Boboli Gardens<\/a> by artist Domenico Bianchi is dedicated to the <em>magnum opus<\/em> of Galileo Galilei, <em>Sidereus Nuncius<\/em>, as this year celebrates the 450th anniversary of the birth of Galileo (as well as the 450th anniverary of the death of Michelangelo, coincidentally).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9580\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9580\" alt=\"Sidereus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sidereus.jpg?resize=640%2C471&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sidereus.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sidereus.jpg?resize=350%2C257&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidereus \/ Bodelein Library collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The work hung inside the <a title=\"limonaia boboli gardens\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/limonaia-boboli-gardens\/\">Limonaia<\/a> is over one hundred meters long on one wall and represents the vastness and depth of the universe described by the scientist when he looked at the stars. Individual wooden panels painted with wax, with silver representative areas, are interrupted by occasional verticals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/instagram.com\/p\/pMULI2OOFE\/embed\/\" height=\"710\" width=\"612\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The composition is a specific reference to symphonic composition in music, with a base theme interrupted by moments of intensity and harmony. There are hermetic and platonic symbols involved, all things that the Renaissance would have loved. This makes the position inside the Medici&#8217;s Limonaia &#8211; in which the family housed a collection of unusual citrus plants during the winter &#8211; particularly relevant, as both this work and the lemon plants celebrate the diversity of nature and the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The slideshow above shows individual parts of Bianchi&#8217;s panels displayed and composed differently in other locations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Visitor information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DOMENICO BIANCHI \/ SIDEREUS<br \/>\nLimonaia Grande-Giardino di Boboli<br \/>\nPalazzo Pitti<br \/>\nJune 13 &#8211; July 13\u00a0 2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A site specific work for the Limonaia of the Boboli Gardens by artist Domenico Bianchi is dedicated to the magnum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Contemporary art in the Boboli Garden - Sidereus by Domenico Bianchi - ArtTrav<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/sidereus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Contemporary art in the Boboli Garden - Sidereus by Domenico Bianchi - ArtTrav\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A site specific work for the Limonaia of the Boboli Gardens by artist Domenico Bianchi is dedicated to the magnum [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/sidereus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtTrav\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https\/\/facebook.com\/arttravcom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https\/\/facebook.com\/arttravcom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-06-19T06:43:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-06-20T05:52:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"456\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alexandra Korey\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@arttrav\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@arttrav\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alexandra Korey\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/sidereus\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/sidereus\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alexandra Korey\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c018af7844e33e94807101ca6432b808\"},\"headline\":\"Contemporary art in the Boboli Garden &#8211; 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