FLORENCE, ITALY – From the Florence of the Medicis to Paris: a new exhibit is the celebration of portraiture and includes masters such as Rosso Fiorentino, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, and Bronzino.
It opens Friday September 18, 2015 and runs through January 25, 2016 at Paris’ Muséè Jacquemart-André.
Florence, Portraits at the Court of the Medicis shows ability to capture at the same time the intensity of the faces of prominent figures of the day and the sparkle of the society in which they found themselves immersed.
The visitor is accompanied through Florentine history following the sudden Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, across the brief Republican phase, and through the principalities of Alessandro de’ Medici, Cosimo I and Francesco, whose daughter Maria sanctioned the approach between the Tuscan city and France by marrying King Henry IV.
The Paris exhibition has benefited from an important collaboration between Florence museums, from which many of the works were gathered, as well as prestigious loans from galleries such as the Royal Collection of London and Frankfurt’s Staedel Museum.
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