Anticipations: in 2021 there will be a major exhibition on Sandro Botticelli in Paris

The year 2021 will bring a major exhibition dedicated to Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi; Florence, 1445 - 1510): it will be held from September 10, 2021 to January 24, 2022 in Paris, at the Musée Jacquemart-André, and will consist of some 40 works by the Florentine artist, with also several paintings by his contemporaries. The exhibition aims to reconstruct Botticelli’s career by paying attention to the historical context (Botticelli’s art witnesses the profound changes that altered the face of late 15th-century Florence) and the activity of his workshop.

It is precisely Botticelli’s workshop that is expected to be one of the main focuses of the exhibition, judging from early previews: “unceasingly,” the presentation reads, Botticelli “alternated unique pieces with a mass production set up by his many assistants. The exhibition will show the importance of this workshop practice, a lush laboratory of ideas and training, typical of the Italian Renaissance.” Botticelli will be presented both in his role as an artist and in his role, perhaps less known to the general public, as an entrepreneur and teacher. The tour will follow a chronological and thematic order, tracking the development of Botticelli’s style, the links between his work and the culture of his time, and the influence Botticelli himself exerted on 15th-century Florentine artists.

The Musée Jacquemart-André holds two paintings by Botticelli, a Madonna and Child and the Flight into Egypt, and these will be joined by several other well-known works, such as the Venus Arriving from Berlin, the Madonna Campana from the Louvre, the Bella Simonetta from the Stäof the Frankfurt Museum, and there will also be a workshop replica of the Uffizi’s celebrated Madonna of the Magnificat, which will arrive on loan from the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.

Pictured: Sandro Botticelli, Venus, detail (c. 1490; oil on canvas, 158.1 x 68.5 cm; Berlin, Gemäldegalerie)

Anticipations: in 2021 there will be a major exhibition on Sandro Botticelli in Paris

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