Tuscany’s autumn exhibition season and art highlights will bring together some of the biggest names in European and American art, with major shows and new museum projects opening between September and October.
Among the main events are an exhibition exploring Artemisia Gentileschi’s decisive years in Florence, more than 150 works by Edward Hopper in Pisa and Broken. The Power of the Fragment at Palazzo Strozzi. Florence will also gain a new permanent museum when the Collezione Casamonti opens at Palazzo San Giorgio on 28 September.
Here are some of the main exhibitions and openings to look out for in Tuscany this autumn.
Artemisia Gentileschi at the Museo degli Innocenti
One of Florence’s main exhibitions of the season will examine Artemisia Gentileschi’s years in the Tuscan capital.
Artemisia Gentileschi in Florence will run at the Museo degli Innocenti from 21 October 2026 to 4 April 2027, focusing on a decisive period in the painter’s career.
Gentileschi moved to Florence after leaving Rome and established herself within the city’s artistic and intellectual circles. She became the first woman admitted to Florence’s Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, received commissions from the Medici family and was acquainted with Galileo Galilei.
The exhibition will also include two works by Caravaggio.
More than 150 works by Edward Hopper in Pisa
One of the biggest international names coming to Tuscany this autumn is Edward Hopper, the American painter known for his depictions of cities, interiors and solitary figures.
Hopper became one of the defining figures of 20th-century American painting through scenes of cafés, hotels, offices, houses and landscapes. His use of light and architecture, and the isolation of many of his figures, have also had a lasting influence on photography and cinema.
Broken at Palazzo Strozzi
The exhibition traces the history of the fragment from archaeology to contemporary art, looking at how destruction, survival and the passage of time can transform the meaning of an object.
Its historical context ranges from religious reforms and the French Revolution to the two world wars and the Florence flood of 1966.
Works by Giovanni Pisano, Michelangelo, Antonio Canova and Auguste Rodin will appear alongside contemporary artists including Louise Bourgeois, Huma Bhabha, Robert Gober, Francesco Vezzoli and Danh Vo.
Palazzo Strozzi will also present a new installation by Dutch artist Mark Manders, created specifically for the Renaissance courtyard.
A new home for the Casamonti collection
Florence will also gain a new permanent museum for modern and contemporary art this autumn.
Collector and gallery owner Roberto Casamonti will open the new Collezione Casamonti at Palazzo San Giorgio, at Lungarno Serristori 17, on 28 September 2026. The museum will have 28 rooms across two floors, with around 900 square metres of exhibition space.
The collection spans more than a century of art, from Giovanni Fattori, Vittorio Corcos and Plinio Nomellini to Futurism and Metaphysical art, and then the post-war and contemporary periods. Artists represented include Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, Alighiero Boetti and Maurizio Cattelan.
The new museum follows the Casamonti collection’s previous home at Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni in Piazza Santa Trinita, where space limitations meant that different parts of the collection were displayed on rotation.
Palazzo San Giorgio, a 19th-century building overlooking the Arno, has undergone three years of restoration and adaptation. The museum will open during the Florence International Antiques Biennial, which runs from 26 September to 4 October.
Dürer, Parmigianino and Baselitz at Palazzo Medici Riccardi
Beyond the Renaissance. Between Dürer and Parmigianino will run at Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence from 10 September 2026 to 5 January 2027.
The exhibition is devoted to European Mannerist graphic art and the relationship that German contemporary artist Georg Baselitz has developed with 16th-century masters through more than six decades of artistic research and collecting.
It brings together works from Baselitz’s private collection and the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Victor Man at Museo Novecento
Museo Novecento, overlooking Piazza Santa Maria Novella, will devote its main autumn exhibition to Romanian-born artist Victor Man.
Running from 26 September 2026 to 7 March 2027, the exhibition will present around 25 paintings exploring recurring subjects in Man’s work, including maternity, portraiture and self-portraiture, still life and the female figure.
The selection includes works dating from 2019 to 2026, together with five paintings from the Luminary Petals on a Wet Black Bough series.
Contemporary art at Centro Pecci in Prato
Prato’s Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci will open three exhibitions during the autumn.
The programme begins on 19 September with Villa Delizia, a solo exhibition by Lorenza Longhi using installations, textiles and everyday objects to examine consumption, taste and desire.
On 21 November, French-Tunisian artist Alex Ayed will present a new project inspired by a solo journey through the Mediterranean, exploring connections between memory, craftsmanship, territory and identity.
The programme also includes Cadabra, a retrospective devoted to American artist Karen Kilimnik, bringing together works from the 1980s to the present across painting, photography and popular culture.
Carol Rama in Pistoia
Pistoia will focus on one of the most distinctive figures of 20th-century Italian art with an exhibition dedicated to Carol Rama at Palazzo de’ Rossi.
Running from 3 October 2026 to 14 February 2027, the exhibition will present seven works tracing different phases of the Turin-born artist’s career.
The selection ranges from her involvement with the Movimento Arte Concreta in the 1950s to the Bricolages of the following decade and her later experiments with materials including bicycle inner tubes and thread sewn onto fabric.
The works come from the Gallerie d’Italia – Intesa Sanpaolo collections and a private collection.
(Cover photo: Jean Beaufort has released this “Edward Hopper Painting” image under Public Domain license)
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