Palazzo Strozzi celebrates Verrocchio with major exhibition

Verrocchio, Leonardo’s master, this is the title of the major exhibition that Palazzo Strozzi dedicates to Andrea del Verrocchio, an artist who symbolized the Renaissance in Florence. From March 9 to July 14, 2019, visitors will be able to admire more than 120 works including paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the world’s most important museums and collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Uffizi Galleries in Florence.

This is the first retrospective ever dedicated to Verrocchio, presenting at the same time the beginnings of Leonardo da Vinci, thus offering a glimpse of artistic production in Florence between about 1460 and 1490, the era of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

The exhibition, curated by two of the leading experts on the art of the 15th century, Francesco Caglioti and Andrea De Marchi, is among the flagship events of the 2019 Leonardo celebrations.

The exhibition, with a special section set up at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, brings together for the first time celebrated masterpieces by Verrocchio and major works by the most famous artists of the second half of the 15th century linked to his workshop, including Domenico del Ghirlandaio, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino and Leonardo da Vinci, his most famous pupil, whose training and exchange with the master will be reconstructed through exceptional loans and never-before-seen comparisons.

The exhibition is promoted and organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Bargello Museums with the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (second venue of the exhibition from September 29, 2019 to February 2, 2020). With the support of the City of Florence, Tuscany Region, Florence Chamber of Commerce and with the contribution of Fondazione CR Firenze. Main sponsor Intesa Sanpaolo.

For info: www.palazzo strozzi.org

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Image: Andrea del Verrocchio, Madonna and Child (c. 1470-1475; Berlin, Gemäldegalerie)

Palazzo Strozzi celebrates Verrocchio with major exhibition

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