FLORENCE, ITALY – From Palazzo Strozzi in Florence to the Louvre in Paris: after its Florentine stop, the exhibition “The Renaissance Spring. Sculpture and the Arts in Florence, 1400-1460″ opens at the Parisian museum on Thursday, September 26.
On view through January 6, the show features 140 works from museums around the world, including many sculptures – several of them leaving Italy for the first time – from those 60 extraordinary years in which a small group of Florentine artists – Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Desiderio di Settignano, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Mino di Fiesole – gave life to the Renaissance. The Louvre has not hosted such a plethora of Renaissance sculptures since the 1930s, museum sources said.
Curated by Bargello National Museum Director Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Louvre sculpture curator Marc Bormand, the exhibition was organized by both institutions in close collaboration. It has given rise to a vast restoration campaign in both France and Italy, with 12 Renaissance masterpieces recovering their ancient splendor.
Among these, Donatello’s ”St. Ludovico of Toulouse”, in gold-plated bronze, enamels and rock crystals. At least 100,000 people visited the show in Florence between March 23 and August 18.
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