FLORENCE
The image of Florence as a new Athens, with its illustrious and picturesque traces of the past, and the signs of human intervention which over time have redrawn the landscape, as in the altarpieces of the fourteenth-century Primitives: this is the idea that surfaces when consulting the travel albums of foreign travellers at the beginning of the twentieth century when Florence was their destination of choice. It was a time when the stereotype that had already enclosed the city in a gilded cage as the “cradle of the Renaissance” was already well established. And yet the signs of encroaching modernity were not ignored to judge from public and private collections, art schools, and the squares and streets of the towns.
AREZZO
The province of Arezzo has a large number of museums and galleries dedicated to twentieth century-art, the result of a regional vocation which first appeared in the 1960s, has become more established in the past twenty years, and can now be said to have its own historic dimension of proven relevance.
Overall the picture is decidedly heterogeneous, albeit with a prevalence of museums of a general nature, i.e. “generically” dedicated to documenting twentieth century art.
GROSSETO
The twentieth-century artistic vocation of this outlying area is undoubtedly ascribable to the creation from the 1980s onwards of several art parks, a category in which the area,