Galerie Canesso

Tableaux anciens

Eberhard Keilhau, called Monsù Bernardo

Helsingør, 1624 - Rome, 1687 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Grape-Picker Oil on canvas, 100 × 75 cm (39 ³⁄₈ × 29 ¹⁄₂ in)

26, rue Laffitte • 75009 Paris • Tel. + 33 1 40 22 61 71 • Fax + 33 1 40 22 61 81 • e-mail : contact @ canesso.com www.canesso.com Cover Sistine Madonna (detail), c. 1512–13, Raphael (1483–1520) Oil on canvas, 269.5201cm © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister; See article on pp. 58–63

sepTeMber 2011 £5.95

The InTernaTIernaTIernaonal arT MagazIne

The Florence biennale | gerolamo etro’s Collecting Francesco Maria rondani and the Centoni Chapel | The Fondazione prada

Two raphael Madonnas reunited | The palazzo strozzi Transformed

CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2011 VOLUME CLXXIV NO. 590

21 Editor’s Letter New directions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York 22 Agenda What’s on around the world in September

Features 28 Italian Hours Susan Moore previews the 27th Florence Biennale 34 An Italian Phoenix James Bradburne, director of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, talks to Susan Moore about the museum’s transformation 40 A Passion for Italy Gerolamo Etro talks about the Italian art scene and building his collection to Oscar Humphries 48 A Temple to Art Louise Nicholson takes a tour of Gordon Sze’s world-class collection of Melanesian and Polynesian art 58 Painter of Souls Andreas Henning contrasts two altarpieces by Raphael, reunited in a new exhibition in Dresden for the first time in 500 years 64 Rondani and the Grotesque Mary Vaccaro analyses the fresco cycle by Francesco Maria Rondani for the Centoni Chapel of Parma Cathedral 72 Fashioning Art’s Future Ben Luke reports on the evolution of the Fondazione Prada and its ambitious plans for the future

Gerolama and Roberta Etro’s collection: pp. 40–45

SEPTEMBER 2011 APOLLO 13