Florence is celebrating Fra Angelico in the biggest ever homage to the 15th-century artistic pioneer at two major venues in the Tuscan capital with loans from all over the world.
    It is a double exhibition, at Palazzo Strozzi and the San Marco Museum, from September 26 to January 25.
    The exhibition, dedicated to the early Renaissance master (1395-1455) who transformed 15th-century art, and which required four years of preparation, explores, through over 140 works, the production, development, and influence of Fra Angelico's art and his relationships with painters such as Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, and sculptors such as Lorenzo Ghiberti, Michelozzo, and Luca della Robbia.
    Curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke, Curator Emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Stefano Casciu, Regional Director of the National Museums of Tuscany, and Angelo Tartuferi, former Director of the Museo di San Marco, the show, titled 'Beato Angelico' represents the biggest exhibition in Florence dedicated to the artist, exactly 70 years after his 1955 monographic exhibition.
    The works, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures, come from, among others, the Louvre, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Vatican Museums, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
    "Palazzo Strozzi once again celebrates the Florentine Renaissance with the first major exhibition dedicated to Beato Angelico in Florence in over seventy years: an extraordinary undertaking, made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Museo di San Marco and the contribution of the most important national and international museums," said Arturo Galansino, Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi.
    "The exhibition represents an essential point of arrival for studies and research on Fra Angelico, thanks also to the important restorations and scientific investigations of many of the works on display," said Casciu.
    "We are faced with a protagonist and creator of the Renaissance," said Brandon Strehlke.
    Mayor Sara Funaro called it "a truly magnificent exhibition, the flagship exhibition of Palazzo Strozzi."
   

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