Aurelio Amendola for Michelangelo

Aurelio Amendola, born in Pistoia in 1938, during his exceptional career as an art photographer has dedicated himself intensely to contemporary themes, coming to collect a real gallery of portraits of the most famous masters of the twentieth century. In 2024, the Spazio Vedova in Venice welcomed many of his shots in the exhibition "Amendola. Burri, Vedova, Nitsch: Actions and gestures", produced by the Emilio and Annabianca Vedova Foundation in collaboration with the Palazzo Albizzini Foundation Burri Collection. Antonio Natali, born in Piombino in 1951, worked at the Uffizi from 1981 to 2016, being its director from 2006 to 2015. In 2006 he became Full Professor of History of Modern Art at the Politecnico di Milano. At the Uffizi he was also responsible for the departments of 16th-century and 17th-century painting and contemporary art. Among the exhibitions he curated is the triad of Palazzo Strozzi dedicated to Florentine art of the 16th century (in 2010, 2014 and 2017).