Museo Marino Marini Firenze
Deconsecrated medieval church holding a sculptor's restless bronze horses beside a still-sacred Renaissance tomb chapel.
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This guide to the Museo Marino Marini in Florence starts deep inside a deconsecrated medieval church, at a small locked chamber the museum still doesn't own: the Rucellai Sepulchre, carved by Leon Battista Alberti around 1467 as a miniature copy of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem. It traces the building's odder past lives, a lottery office, a courthouse, even a tobacco factory, before the city handed it to sculptor Marino Marini in the 1980s. You'll follow his one obsession, a horse and rider recast again and again in bronze, from an upright, controlled early version onward.
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