«Beato Angelico» in Venice
Museo di San Marco & Palazzo Strozzi, Venice Italy
September 26, 2025 to January 25, 2026
The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco present an unprecedented exhibition celebrating Fra Angelico. Marking the first major Florentine retrospective in seventy years, this event unites over 140 works—including paintings, sculptures, and manuscripts—from prestigious global collections.
Curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke, Angelo Tartuferi, and Stefano Casciu, the exhibition explores the friar painter’s pivotal role in bridging late Gothic traditions with the innovations of the Renaissance. Through masterworks that harmonize light, perspective, and spiritual depth, the show highlights his dialogue with contemporaries like Masaccio and Ghiberti. Following four years of rigorous research and restoration, this landmark project offers the rare opportunity to reunite long-dispersed altarpieces, cementing Fra Angelico’s legacy as a cornerstone of Italian art.
Beato Angelico
Diagrammatic Painting in Late Medieval Italy
a cura di Carl Brandon Strehlke, Stefano Casciu, Angelo Tartuferi
Marsilio Arte, 2025, Exhibition catalogue, 440 pages, Hardback, ISBN: 9791254632499
Fondo Oro Magazine highly recommends this landmark exhibition catalogue because it stands as an absolute milestone in early Renaissance scholarship, perfectly balancing rigorous academic depth with accessibility. Celebrating a major international exhibition across Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco, this massive 440-page monograph brings together an unparalleled wealth of recent scientific data, masterful critical essays, and a rich iconographic apparatus from over seventy global collections. By illuminating the life, collaborations, and "diagrammatic" vision of Fra Angelico, the volume features cutting-edge expert contributions alongside fascinating graphic reconstructions of dispersed altarpieces and the Santa Trinita sacristy. Crucially, the magazine honors how this publication chronicles the historic restoration of over twenty of the artist's works—conducted with the prestigious Opificio delle Pietre Dure—making it an indispensable, transformative reference for art historians and passionate other fondo oro enthusiasts.
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