Firenze 1977, Brunelleschi anti-classico. Una mostra itenerante, tra storiografia e architettura

The narration of Renaissance architecture and its protagonists found in the exhibitions dedicated to Michelangelo (1964) and Bramante (1970) two episodes of great importance, which were well studied in their content and exhibition aspects, as well as in the communicative innovations they concretized. Less studied, on the other hand, was the exhibition dedicated to Brunelleschi in Florence (1977-1978), conceived to illustrate an original interpretation of the great master’s architecture and his role in the fundamental transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The exhibition, curated by Bruno Zevi, is characterized by a peculiar dialectical relationship between the place (Santa Maria Novella) and Florence – as the city of Brunelleschi - as a whole. The use of specific narrative techniques and innovative exhibition methods make it a sort of laboratory of historiography and museography, where, on the one hand, the connection with the previous exhibitions curated by Zevi or with those set up by Pietro Sartogo is re-established, and, on the other hand, new forms of spreading complex concepts and contamination with contemporary culture are explored