Wellington. The “The Corsini Collection” will be inaugurated tomorrow at the Auckland Art Gallery, which will bring the works of the last private collection owned by a family of Italian princes for the first time in New Zealand. The exhibition includes works by Italian Renaissance and Baroque masters such as Botticelli, Bronzino, and Caravaggio. The collection has never left Italy before nor has it ever been shown in a traveling exhibition. The exhibition intends to place the masterpieces within their historical, socio-political and cultural context. The Corsini princes were among the most important and influential families in Central Italy from the Middle Ages to the 17th century. Florence, often referred to as the cradle of the Renaissance, was the center of a huge political, economic, and religious throng that was driven by single families that had a decisive influence on the role that Florence played within the broader Italian politics. (9Colonne
