Museo Bardini

Stefano Bardini 1836– 1922 was an Italian authority and craftsmanship merchant in Florence who had some expertise in Italian compositions, Renaissance form, cassoni and other Renaissance and Cinquecento decorations and design sections that went ahead the market amid the urbanistic revamping of Florence in the 1860s and 70s.Trained as a painter and master copyist at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze from 1854,Bardini got expanding commissions as a restorer and ventured into offering show-stoppers from 1870 onwards.

Working as a restorer Bardini, who effectively expelled some Botticelli frescoes from the Villa Lemmi, was charged to evacuate the frescoes authorized by Jakob Salomon Bartholdy from a few of the German Nazarene hover of painters from Casa Bartholdy, Rome, which had been bought by Berlin, in 1886– 87.His tasteful, scarcely recognizable reclamation of Simone Martini's Saint Catherine of Alexandria, now in the National Gallery of Canada, has been inspected as a remarkable case of the consistent rebuilding efforts that his age favored.