On Monday 7 April (5.30 pm), the Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze will host the second appointment of the retrospective L’eterno contemporaneo. Michelangelo 1475 – 2025, conceived to celebrate Michelangelo Buonarroti on the occasion of the 550th anniversary of his birth..

The Florentine museum is pleased to welcome Professor Francesco Caglioti – Ordinary of Medieval Art History at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa considered one of the most important voices on Renaissance sculpture. The Academic will give a lecture entitled Il David di Michelangelo: preistoria e protostoria.

The theme of the evening is Michelangelo’s David, with a focus on the genesis of the work within a long-term historical perspective. The immediate and triumphal success of the statue was in fact favoured by the patient wait that Tuscan art had experienced, from generation to generation, for a figure such as David, capable of challenging the space around a cathedral to great heights.

Admission to the event is free while places last.

The conference Il David di Michelangelo: preistoria e protostoria, curated by Francesco Caglioti, is part of the retrospective L’eterno contemporaneo. Michelangelo 1475 – 2025.

The calendar of events, which will unfold over the course of 2025, is designed to deepen our knowledge of Michelangelo’s masterpieces preserved at the Accademia Gallery – highlighting the artist’s vision, his innovative spirit and his extraordinary topicality.

Learn more about the resign “L’eterno contemporaneo”

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