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October 4 through November 30, 2024
Cost: access to the exhibition is included in the Museum entrance fee
From Oct. 4 to Nov. 30, 2024, the music room of the Zeffirelli Foundation will host an exhibition of the Costumes designed by Danilo Donati for Franco Zeffirelli’s film Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna.
The exhibit, desired by Zeffirelli Foundation President Pippo Zeffirelli in collaboration with Cerratelli Foundation Director Diego Fiorini, will make available to visitors more than 70 original costumes worn during the filming of the 1972 movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker, Alec Guinness and Valentina Cortese, made by Casa d’Arte Cerratelli.
The habit worn by Graham Faulkner in scenes from the film is a copy faithfully made by the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition, based on the original costume made by Danilo Donati that is missing.
For the first time, after more than 50 years, the stage costumes designed by Danilo Donati will be visible to the public in a single exhibition that brings together the most significant elements of the entire production, thanks to the kind collaboration of Casa d’Arte Cerratelli and the contribution of Gelsi, costumi d’Arte.
The dresses on display pay tribute to the great master costume designer Danilo Donati, formerly an Oscar winner for the costumes of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo&Giulietta.
The film Brother Sun Sister Moon, was released in Italy on March 3, 1972 and earned Franco Zeffirelli, the David di Donatello for directing and an Oscar nomination for Best Director.
The temporary exhibition can be visited with a full admission ticket to the Zeffirelli Museum. No reductions are available
DANILO DONATI
Danilo Donati was born in Luzzara, in the province of Reggio Emilia, in 1926. Together with Piero Tosi, he is considered one of the greatest costume designers of the 20th century. Practically the same age, Donati and Tosi became friends in the immediate postwar period by attending the Porta Romana Art Institute in Florence together, although in different courses: Donati was a student of Ottone Rosai in the painting course, Tosi of Gianni Vagnetti in the set design course.
The beginning of their professional lives saw them both collaborating with Luchino Visconti, to whom they had been introduced by Franco Zeffirelli, who had known and appreciated them in Florence and – more enterprising than they were – had moved to Rome first, with a writing in the Compagnia Italiana di Prosa directed precisely by Visconti. After a brief apprenticeship as assistant set and costume designers for theatrical productions directed by Visconti, both Donati and Tosi devoted themselves over time mainly to film costumes, each distinguishing themselves for a very personal style: imaginative the former, philological the latter.
Between 1957 and 1972, before becoming Pasolini’s and Fellini’s favorite costume designer, Donati collaborated several times with Zeffirelli, signing the costumes for two operas, three plays and three films, including Romeo and Juliet, which earned him the first of the two Oscars of his career; and again for Zeffirelli he also worked on several projects that were not realized.
The temporary exhibition can be visited with a full admission ticket to the Zeffirelli Museum. There are no reductions.
On Sunday, Oct. 6 and Sunday, Nov. 3, it will be possible to visit the Zeffirelli Museum free of charge for residents of the metropolitan city. The temporary exhibition “Brother Sun, Sister Moon. Danilo Donati’s Costumes” will instead be visitable with a full Museum ticket.