{"id":5573,"date":"2019-02-13T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galleriabazzanti.it\/il-porcellino-di-firenze\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T08:40:40","slug":"il-porcellino-di-firenze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galleriabazzanti.it\/en\/il-porcellino-di-firenze\/","title":{"rendered":"The Porcellino of Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1551343702505{padding-top: 250px !important;padding-bottom: 250px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/www.galleriabazzanti.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/blog-porcellino-11-titolo3.jpg?id=5566) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1550159415149{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The “Porcellino“ of Florence” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”titolo-articolo”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1551350910024{margin-bottom: -50px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The marble boar, Roman replica” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n
The bronze<\/strong> boar<\/strong> of the fountain<\/strong> of the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo in Florence<\/strong>, was immediately nicknamed, with the typical Florentine<\/strong> irony, “il Porcellino<\/strong>” (the small pig). It all began with the visit that Cosimo I dei Medici made in 1560 to Pope Pius IV. Not only did Cosimo become passionate about antiquities, but he received as a gift from the Pope the Roman marble replica<\/strong> of a Greek bronze boar<\/strong> of the III century BC. excavated in Rome<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1550159415149{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”5639″ img_size=”post-slide” hide_pagination_control=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1551351023100{margin-top: -50px !important;margin-bottom: -50px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n together with two marble<\/strong> mastiff dogs. And he took them to Florence<\/strong>, to his new home in Palazzo Pitti (later they were taken to the Uffizi Gallery).<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”5641,5642″ img_size=”post-slide”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1551367341891{margin-top: -50px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The envious nephew and the bronze replica ” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n Years later his nephew Cosimo II ordered to the sculptor<\/strong> Pietro Tacca<\/strong>, a pupil of Giambologna<\/strong>, a bronze<\/strong> replica<\/strong> of the marble<\/strong> Porcellino<\/strong> to be brought back to Palazzo Pitti. Tacca<\/strong> executed the mold in 1612 and in 1633 he cast it in bronze<\/strong> with the lost wax technique.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The bronze has tired me, let’s put it in the square!” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n In 1640 it was decided to transform the sculpture<\/strong> into a fountain<\/strong> for the population of Florence<\/strong>, and was installed on the side of the open gallery<\/strong> of the New Market (Loggia del Mercato Nuovo). First, however, Tacca<\/strong> modeled the sculpture<\/strong> of the base by simulating a portion of grass populated by grasses, reptiles, insects, which was cast<\/strong> with the lost wax technic with the animal.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The poor pig loses his face” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n The continuous withdrawal from the water for two centuries without respect for the monument<\/strong> led to a heavy wear of both the base and the snout of the Porcellino<\/strong> (Bardini Museum, Florence),<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”5644,5645″ img_size=”post-slide”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n so much so that in the mid-nineteenth century it was decided to perform a new replica<\/strong> to replace the original fountain<\/strong>. A mold on the worn and deteriorated bronze was made, which was brought back to its original state in wax, including the base, from which a second bronze replica<\/strong> was obtained which replaced the first one (preserved at the Bardini Museum too), cast<\/strong> with the lost in wax technic in 1857 by the foundry<\/strong> of Clemente Papi, direct heir of the Renaissance<\/strong> foundry<\/strong> artisans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”5643″ img_size=”post-slide” hide_pagination_control=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Other than Trevi Fountain! ” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]From the end of the 19th century the Porcellino<\/strong> had become one of the most admired symbols of the city of Florence<\/strong>, and the legend was born that those who had touched its nose would return to Florence<\/strong>, just as for Rome throw a coin in the Trevi fountain. The number of tourists began to increase dramatically, and the snout of the boar<\/strong> began to worsen in a worrying manner, as well as the sculpted base<\/strong> on which many climbed blissfully unmindful of the damage produced to the bronze<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”5732″ img_size=”post-slide” hide_pagination_control=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Our heroes arrive ! ” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n So it was that in 1998 The \u201cPorcellino<\/strong>\u201d and its base were replaced another time: a new replica<\/strong> was ordered to the Foundry Ferdinando Marinelli of Florence<\/strong><\/a>, which in its plaster molds collection preserves the mold made on the original, which replaced the nineteenth-century replica.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”5646″ img_size=”post-slide” hide_pagination_control=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n