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Partnership relations Jane Adams with the film crew Natia Docufilm.

Portrait on display

Now under the museum spotlight, Jesi's portrait is featured on the small screen. After World War II, Raphael Mafai continued to be primarily a sculptor, taking part in important exhibitions at the Rome National Gallery of Modern Art and multiple editions of the Venice Biennale. Visitors to Florence's Novecento Museum have the chance to appreciate three works by Antonietta Raphael Mafai including her Portrait of Emilio Jesi, pictured here during filming for the for-television special 'Noi Siamo Cultural' on L'EFFE TV, broadcast on Sky in 2017. Mafai's newly restored bust was featured in an episode entitled 'Monuments Women', directed by Giuseppe Carrieri of Natia Docufilm. This huge five-floor venue, recognizable by its loggia featuring lunette reliefs by Andrea della Robbia, was employed as a hospital in the thirteenth-century. Recently at the center of the 6-million euro renovation project, it hosts a stunning internal cloister protected by glass windows and doors and twenty-exhibition rooms where the likes of De Chirico, De Piscis, Morandi and Guttuso are on display.
Text adapted from Jane Fortune's article 'Are We Almost There' in The Florentine.