From September 26, 2025, to January 25, 2026, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco present Angelico, an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to Fra Angelico, a key figure of the Quattrocento in Florence.
The exhibition, co-organized with the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Toscana of the Ministry of Culture, celebrates one of the founding fathers of Renaissance art in Florence. Spread across two venues—Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco—the exhibition will explore the production, development, and influence of Fra Angelico’s work in dialogue with painters such as Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, and Lorenzo Monaco, as well as sculptors like Lorenzo Ghiberti, Michelozzo and Luca della Robbia.
The exhibition will also provide the opportunity to restore extraordinary masterpieces and reunite, for the first time in over two hundred years, works by one of the greatest masters of Italian art. This unique event will feature loans from some of the world’s most important museums and institutions, including the Louvre in Paris, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
After exploring the elegant language of Gothic painting, Fra Angelico (circa 1395–1455) enthusiastically took on the new principles of Renaissance art then emerging in Florence. He created works that display a mastery in perspectival space and the light that envelops the figures. The exhibition will allow for an exploration of the quality and absolute level of this artist as never before, bringing out his capacity for artistic innovation in service of deep spiritual values that were founded on a profound meditation of the sacred as reflected in the world of humanity.
Curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke, Angelico marks the first major exhibition in Florence dedicated to the artist in over seventy years, creating a unique dialogue between institutions and the region through the collaboration of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Toscana, and the Museo di San Marco, whose section will be co-curated by Stefano Casciu (Director of the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Toscana) and Angelo Tartuferi (former Director of the Museo di San Marco).
Cover: Beato Angelico, Giudizio Universale (det.), 1431 circa, Firenze, Museo di San Marco.