Events & Tours
In Florence, on display alongside Leonardo, the great masters of the Modenese coachbuilding tradition
From iron wire to the 250 GTO — Florence traces the hands that shaped racing history.
It was not easy to imagine a continuous thread connecting the armourers who beat sheets of metal in Renaissance Florence to fashion knights' armour; Leonardo da Vinci's intuition of the self-propelled carriage; the internal combustion engine built and patented by Barsanti and Matteucci in the mid-nineteenth century; and the Modenese panel beaters who created jewels such as the Ferrari Testa Rossa and GTO, the Maserati 450 S and "Birdcage", and even the American Shelby Cobra.
And yet that thread exists. A handsome and original exhibition titled "Gli Scultori della Velocità e il Sogno di Leonardo da Vinci", open in Florence until 28 June at the Galleria delle Carrozze in Palazzo Medici Riccardi, sets out to prove it.
