(ANSA) - Florence, January 29 - Plans were presented in
Florence on Tuesday to mark the 450th anniversaries of the death
of Michelangelo and and the founding of the Accademia delle
Belle Arti that houses his David sculpture.
Michelangelo Buonarroti died on February 18, 1564, at the
venerable age of 89.
The year before, Cosimo I de' Medici founded the Accademia
delle Arti del Disegno, known by its current title as the
Accademia delle Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts).
The city will mark these anniversaries with a two-year
cultural programme including exhibitions and an international
conference dedicated to Michelangelo, to be held in Palazzo
Vecchio.
The programme opens on January 30, 2013, at the Accademia,
which will be entirely open to the public for the first time.
Though not of Florentine origin, Michelangelo spent his
formative years studying and working in the Tuscan city before
moving to Venice, Bologna and then finally Rome.
However he returned to the city at the turn of the 16th
century and created his most famous work, David, as well as
several other important commissions while he was there.
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