‘Buffoni, villani e giocatori alla corte dei Medici’
Gallery of Modern Art, Pitti Palace
9th May – 11th September 2016
Roughly translated as ‘Fools, Rogues and gamblers at the Medici Court’, this exhibition of paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries takes as its unusual theme the misfits and fringe characters of society. The paintings are a mix of comedy and the grotesque, illustrating aspects of society considered to be ‘low’ and lacking decorum.