Fondazione Roberto Longhi
Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Art museum and archive in Via Benedetto Fortini, Florence, Italy
Description
The Fondazione Roberto Longhi is an art museum and archive housed in a villa in Florence that preserves an extensive collection of art photographs and reproductions. The building contains exhibition spaces alongside extensive archives holding works that span centuries of art history.
History
The foundation was established in 1971 and occupies Villa Il Tasso, which collector Roberto Longhi and his wife Anna Banti purchased as their residence in 1939. Their decades of gathering art materials and documents within the villa became the core of the institution.
Culture
The villa served as a living and working space for art historians who shaped their research within its rooms. Visitors can observe how domestic spaces and scholarly work were intertwined in daily life.
Practical
Access to the collections is primarily reserved for researchers and requires advance appointment. Public visits are offered at select times and should be arranged beforehand to ensure entry.
Did you know?
The archive employs a distinctive classification system that Roberto Longhi himself designed to organize artworks according to his research methods. This system offers insight into how mid-century art historians structured their investigation of art across time.
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