When Marilyn sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to JFK in 1962, she was wearing shoes designed by Salvatore Ferragamo. The iconic status had 30 other identically shaped pairs. She wore them in movies, parties and everywhere else she went.
Now the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum pays homage to Marilyn Monroe with a major exhibition dedicated to her.
The exhibition connects Marilyn's femininity to fine art.
Pictures of the her are exposed next to famous art works, as for example, her image with tendrils of hair blowing on a breezy beach beside Botticelli’s famous “The Birth of Venus” from 1484.
The exhibition connects Marilyn's femininity to fine art.
Pictures of the her are exposed next to famous art works, as for example, her image with tendrils of hair blowing on a breezy beach beside Botticelli’s famous “The Birth of Venus” from 1484.
You might think it is an audacity to compare the actress to such paintings but after seeing the blond muse with her curvy and half naked-body beside an 18th-century chalk drawing of a sensual nude, I have the feeling, it is not an overstatement.
It treats Marilyn as an eternal beauty, differently from other exhibitions, where she used to appear merely as a movie star.
“Marilyn” at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo (until 28.01.2013) Florence, Italy.
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