Beato Angelico at Palazzo Strozzi and San Marco

From September 26, 2025, to January 25, 2026, Florence will host a landmark exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest masters of Italian art: Beato Angelico. Organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, the show is set to be one of the cultural highlights of the year.

The exhibition explores the development and legacy of Beato Angelico (c. 1395–1455), whose art bridged the late Gothic tradition and the new principles of the Renaissance. Known for his mastery of perspective, use of light, and the spiritual intensity of his figures, the Dominican friar created works that continue to inspire devotion and admiration.

Curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke, Curator Emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Angelo Tartuferi and Stefano Casciu for the Museo di San Marco, the exhibition marks the first major monographic show on Beato Angelico in Florence in seventy years, following the 1955 retrospective. It unfolds across two venues—Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco—creating a dialogue between institutions and the city itself.

The show brings together more than 140 works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and illuminated manuscripts. Masterpieces will arrive from leading international museums such as the Louvre in Paris, 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, as well as churches, libraries, and collections across Italy and abroad.

The exhibition also highlights Angelico’s connections with other artists of his time, including painters Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio, and Filippo Lippi, and sculptors such as Lorenzo Ghiberti, Michelozzo, and Luca della Robbia. Visitors will discover how his unique vision both absorbed and reshaped the artistic innovations of the early Renaissance.

The project is the result of over four years of preparation and includes an extensive campaign of restorations. It also allows the rare reunification of altarpieces that had been dismantled and dispersed for centuries, offering an exceptional opportunity to experience Angelico’s works as they were originally conceived.

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