The educational trip or field trip, as it may be called, represents a very significant formative moment for pupils and students in schools of all levels.
It often represents a time when children experience what they have learned in the classroom during the year and strengthen their emotional bonds.
Our association has had the pleasure of accompanying four classes from a classical high school in Campania, studying a personalized itinerary for the classes.
During which the young students were able to explore Florence’s artistic heritage, moving through the Renaissance and the great geniuses of this historical period, without, however, forgetting the importance of the Arts or Corporations. The latter together with donations from benefactors and patrons, along with religious orders, proved fundamental to the birth of Welfare institutions, as in the case of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, desired by Folco Portinari, that Folco father of Beatrice. An even more significant case was the Ospedale degli Innocenti, created thanks to a bequest from the Prato merchant Francesco di Marco Datini, which was later succeeded by the Florentine Arts.
With great excitement, the children discovered the history of abandoned childhood in Florence, thanks to the digital archival materials made available within the museum itinerary.
With equal surprise they were able to see how the Ospedale degli Innocenti, over the centuries and thanks to the far-sighted activity of its administrators, has been able to accumulate considerable and valuable works of art that were created to bring comfort to the facility’s guests.
In the photo we are admiring Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi.
