Beato Angelico, Altarpiece of the Company of Saint Francis in Santa Croce (Franciscan Triptych). Florence, San Marco Museum.
Mea Nova Domina by Beatrice Brandini
The Palazzo Strozzi Foundation and the San Marco Museum in Florence present Beato Angelico, an extraordinary and perhaps unrepeatable exhibition dedicated to the artist who symbolized fifteenth-century art, one of the greatest masters in the history of art of all time.
Beato Angelico, Lamentation over the Dead Christ. Florence, Museo San Marco.
A glimpse of the exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi on Beato Angelico
This exhibition will undoubtedly be one of the most important artistic events of 2025 for Florence and beyond, an exhibition that will surely attract visitors from around the world, as the beauty of these works cannot fail to impress, amaze, and astonish, and move those who view them.
Mino da Fiesole, Virgin of the Annunciation. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Fra Angelico and Workshop, Annunciation of Monte Carlo, San Giovanni Valdarno, Museum of the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie
The exhibition aims to emphasize the influence of Fra Angelico’s art and his relationships with artists such as Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Luca dalla Robbia.
Fra Angelico, Madonna of Humility and Five Angels. Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art Catalunya.
Hildesheim Triptych
Curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke, Curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Stefano Casciu, Regional Director of the National Museums of Tuscany, and Angelo Tartuferi, former Director of the Museo di San Marco, the exhibition brings together over 140 works, including paintings, drawings, miniatures, and sculptures, from the most prestigious museums such as the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Vatican Museums, and the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
Pisellino (Francesco di Stefano). Crucifixion with Saints Jerome, Mary Magdalene, and Francis of Assisi. Florence, Church of Saints Michael and Cajetan.
Lorenzo Monaco, Bartolini Salimbeni Altarpiece. Florence, Church of Santa Trinita.
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni, Don Lorenzo) and Beato Angelico, Strozzi Altarpiece. Florence, Museo di San Marco.
This exhibition is the result of four years of preparation. Consider the organizational and insurance challenges of collecting these masterpieces, which are of inestimable scientific and cultural value. It is also the result of a complex restoration campaign and, above all, the reunification of altarpieces that have been dismembered and dispersed for over two hundred years.
Beato Angelico, Tabernacles – Reliquaries of Santa Maria Novella.
“Palazzo Strozzi returns to celebrate the Florentine Renaissance with the first major exhibition dedicated to Fra Angelico in Florence. This exhibition reaffirms Fra Angelico’s centrality in the history of art and offers new insights into his story and fortune.” Arturo Galansino, General Director of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation.
Fra Angelico, Altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin (Paradise). Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
Fra Angelico, Bosco ai Frati Altarpiece. Florence, Museo di San Marco
“The exhibition represents an essential point of arrival for studies and research on Fra Angelico, thanks also to the important restorations and scientific investigations of many of the works on display.” Stefano Casciu, Regional Director of National Museums of the Ministry of Culture.
Bernardo Rossellino, Mariotto d’Angelo Altarpiece. Arezzo, Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art.
The Beato Angelico exhibition is structured around Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco, with a total of 140 works. At Palazzo Strozzi, there are eight sections, both chronological and thematic; at the Museo di San Marco, the exhibition unfolds in the large ground-floor room named after the artist, which showcases his early works, and in the Library, with two sections dedicated to Angelico the miniaturist.
Beato Angelico: Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco. September 26, 2025 – January 25, 2026
An unmissable exhibition, which I hope will help inspire emotions of peace and humanity, words that are now more forgotten than ever.
Enjoy your life!
Beatrice