{"id":9192,"date":"2014-12-18T18:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2014-12-18T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:43:32","slug":"is-the-italian-government-really-landing-to-hotels-the-artworks-now-in-the-museums-deposits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/12\/18\/is-the-italian-government-really-landing-to-hotels-the-artworks-now-in-the-museums-deposits\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Italian Government seriously disposed to lend hotels the artworks preserved in museums&#8217; storage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9192 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/12\/18\/is-the-italian-government-really-landing-to-hotels-the-artworks-now-in-the-museums-deposits\/ilaria-borletti-buitoni-e-nel-consiglio-superiore-di-bankitalia_h_partb\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ilaria-Borletti-Buitoni-e-nel-Consiglio-Superiore-di-Bankitalia_h_partb-480x287.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9195\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9195'>\n\t\t\t\tIlaria Borletti Buitoni,  Sottosegretario di Stato al Ministero dei Beni e delle Attivit\u00e0 Culturali e del Turismo.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/12\/18\/is-the-italian-government-really-landing-to-hotels-the-artworks-now-in-the-museums-deposits\/dsc_4424-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_4424-2-322x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>As reported by Adnkronos press agency a couple of\u00a0days ago, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, the Italian \u201csottosegretario alla cultura\u201d \u2013 who is a sort of influential vice-Minister of Culture \u2013 has supported a very disputable proposal regarding the artworks that Italian museums currently have in their storage and that, as Uffizi director Antonio Natali himself claimed, are most of the time far from being high quality artworks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During a forum organized by Adnkronos itself in Rome, Bernab\u00f2 Bocca, president of Federalberghi \u2013 the association of Italian hoteliers \u2013 has proposed that\u00a0some of these artworks (masterpieces, according to him) would be lent\u00a0to the 34.000 Italian Hotels, in order to be exhibited in their lobbies and common areas.\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0We have no preclusion \u2013 replied Ms. Borletti Buitoni -, the proposal is certainly suggestive, however it needs to be evaluated within a precise context\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Borletti Buitoni, who has no specific studies in art history but held the same role also\u00a0during the government presided over by Gianni Letta and has\u00a0been\u00a0elected in\u00a0the party of the highly criticized former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, is missing more than one point in considering positively this proposal, starting from the fact that there isn&#8217;t any hidden treasure in the Italian museums&#8217; basements, but in case just artworks that ought to be a fundamental source attracting scholars and researches from all over the world. Moreover, if she goes ahead with\u00a0this weird\u00a0proposal she will have to face a series of predictable dilemmas. Why, for example, not including restaurants, bars, supermarkets, shopping malls, pharmacies, or even hospitals? Who will then decide which, among these 34,000 hotels, will be eligible for hosting the artworks? Or, do\u00a0Ms. Borletti Buitoni and Federalberghi believe\u00a0that Italians are ready to walk into\u00a0the lobby of an intimidating 5 star luxury hotel in Milan, Rome or Venice to admire what according to the Constitution of their country they\u00a0should be able to access freely and easily?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by Adnkronos press agency a couple of\u00a0days ago, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, the Italian \u201csottosegretario alla cultura\u201d \u2013 who is a sort of influential vice-Minister of Culture \u2013 has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}