It takes place from July 3rd to December 9th, 2012 , the Native Americans art exhibition in Florence

It takes place from July 3rd to December 9th, 2012 , the Native Americans art exhibition in Florence at the Pitti Palace named The New Frontier. History and culture of the Native Americans from the collections of the Gilcrease Museum . The exhibition, organized by the Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico cheap vacation all inclusive packages ed Etnoantropologico e il Polo Museale della città di Firenze in collaboration with the Gilcrease Museum of Tulsa, in Oklahoma, is prepared on the occasion of the celebrations in Florence of the fifth centenary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci, born precisely in Florence. The Demidoff Country Resort invites you to this special event that will see in show the works and artifacts of ancient splendour.
The exhibition is held in two sections: in the Andito degli Angiolini and in the Costume Gallery of Pitti Palace. In the first, we find a historic section on the discovery of America and the later stages of colonization, social organization of tribes, a map showing the location of tribes and iconographic evidence from the early twentieth century of a great photographer and U.S. ethnologist, Edward Curtis. In the Costume Gallery, the exhibition will be celebrated, first of all, with a fresco by Anton Domenico Gabbiani in the Meridiana room which celebrates Amerigo Vespucci next to Galileo Galilei, with allusions to the discovery of New World and its inhabitants. Then, we find beautiful artifacts of Indigenous Nations, ceremonial and everyday objects. And still gorgeous cheap vacation all inclusive packages paintings, sculptures and photographs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, made by artists who came into contact with the natives, especially Joseph Henry Sharp, with the masterpiece of the exhibition displayed in the ballroom of the Gallery: Crucita, a girl of Taos .
On the occasion of the Native Americans art exhibition, choose to spend a holiday in Florence between art and relax, not in chaos but in the green of the Mugello countryside overlooking Florence and Fiesole. Our 4-star resort cheap vacation all inclusive packages offers cheap vacation all inclusive packages a stay of culture and prosperity: free transfer service to and from Florence (Santa cheap vacation all inclusive packages Maria Novella Station is just half an hour from the hotel), parking, indoor swimming pool, relax area, Swedish sauna, fitness room with freely access and included in the price, an extensive menu of massages and spa treatments, cheap vacation all inclusive packages Tuscan cooking course and tasting menu at the gastronomic Restaurant 1556. You will discover the real world of Native Americans, so many illustrated by American movies.