The wait is over: from September 24 to October 2, 2022, the Florence Biennale Internazionale d’Antiquariato, BIAF, will return to Palazzo Corsini. The return to the presence of the world’s oldest market exhibition, chaired by Mayor Dario Nardella, comes after three years
Two important patronage initiatives will take place on the occasion of the fair. First, the donation of the Trinity and Saints Andrew, Mary Magdalene and Christina (oil on canvas, 373 x 192.5 cm), an altarpiece by Durante Alberti, by Fabrizio Moretti and Eleonora and Bruno Botticelli to Sansepolcro Cathedral.
Then, thanks to the financial support of the Biennale dell’Antiquariato, the Fondazione Archivio Museo Richard Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia has already begun a major campaign to restore a significant nucleus of precious wax models that were severely damaged by moisture in the years following the closure and abandonment of the Museo Ginori. These include the group of Apollo and Marsyas, taken from a work by the Florentine sculptor Giovan Battista Foggini, and the groups with Venus Plucking Love and Leda with the Swan, whose bronze archetypes are due to the invention of the late Baroque sculptor Massimiliano Soldani Benzi.
