Donatello exhibition exceeds 100,000 visitors. And a book on his works in Tuscany comes out

Beyond passes the threshold of one hundred thousand visitors the major exhibition Donatello, the Renaissance running until July 31 at Palazzo Strozzi and the Bargello National Museum in Florence(here is our review). Contributing to the success of the exhibition, Palazzo Strozzi let us know, are the very strong engagement of visitors on all social platforms and on the official hashtag #donatelloilrinascimento and also the great appreciation of press and critics for the high level of the exhibition from both a scientific and exhibition design point of view.

The exhibition also expands throughout the city of Florence and the Region of Tuscany, thanks also to the collaboration with the most important cultural institutions in the area, including the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, the Opera di Santa Croce, the Opera Medicea Laurenziana and the Opera della Metropolitana di Siena, which hold fundamental immovable masterpieces by the artist. In fact, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi is proposing the special Donatello in Tuscany initiative, a project aimed at enhancing the regional artistic heritage, promoted and organized by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi with the contribution of Città Metropolitana di Firenze and Beyfin S.p.A with media partner La Nazione. As part of this initiative, the book Donatello in Tuscany. Itinerari, a publication published by Marsilio Arte and edited by Francesco Caglioti, which will be presented on Monday, June 27, at 6 p.m. in the Altana Room of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (the event is sold out and it will be possible to follow it on Palazzo Strozzi’s social channels). The book offers a journey through Donatello’s works preserved in the region, through texts dedicated to twenty different places and a rich iconographic apparatus. The publication is part of the Donatello in Tuscany project, which has seen the creation of a physical and digital map to explore all of Tuscany in the footsteps of the “master of masters.”

The book traces Donatello’s works found in twenty locations in Tuscany, some of which are on display at Palazzo Strozzi until July 31, 2022, specifically, in Florence: Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Orsanmichele, Basilica di San Lorenzo, Basilica di Santa Croce, Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (with Baptistery, Cathedral, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo), Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo Stefano Bardini, Chiesa di Santa Trìnita; in Arezzo: Cathedral; in Pisa: National Museum of San Matteo; in Pontorme: Church of San Martino; in Prato: Museum of the Opera del Duomo and Cathedral, Museum of Palazzo Pretorio; in Siena: Opera della Metropolitana di Siena (Baptistery, Cathedral, Museum of the Opera del Duomo); in Torrita di Siena: Church of Saints Flora and Lucilla.

“In the tradition of the Fuorimostra di Palazzo Strozzi, which on the occasion of each exhibition offers itineraries throughout Tuscany to create connections between the current exhibition and museums, cultural institutions and partners in the territory,” says Arturo Galansino, director general of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, “the volume becomes an expression of one of the core values of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi: the enhancement of the metropolitan area of Florence and the entire region through the search for synergies and collaborations that stimulate the cultural promotion of the territory.”

“With the contribution to the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, the Metropolitan City of Florence confirms and strengthens its commitment to support the cultural institutions of its territory,” says Letizia Perini, Metropolitan Councilwoman with responsibility for culture for the Metropolitan City of Florence -The major exhibition that Palazzo Strozzi is dedicating to Donatello, and now the valuable volume edited by Francesco Caglioti on Donatello in Tuscany, are important opportunities for collaboration to induce enthusiasts and visitors to broaden their gaze to the many places marked by the fundamental artist: In the city, in the metropolitan area and in all of Tuscany."

“The idea of supporting this initiative that represents the whole of Tuscany was immediate,” explains Beatrice Niccolai, ad of Beyfin Group S.p.A. “The Fuorimostra at Palazzo Strozzi reflects the soul of Beyfin, which is Tuscan, given its widespread presence in the various provinces of the region. Enhancing the peculiarities of the territory is our way of doing business in the energy sector, in Tuscany, as in the other Italian regions where we are present.”

“The work of Francesco Caglioti,” says the director of La Nazione, Agnese Pini, “allows each of us to know and appreciate the places of Tuscany through the vision of a great artist, that Donatello who put all his humanity in each of his works, scattering the beauty of his creations in many cities and the region. And knowing and making known these magnificent places is precisely what La Nazione tries to do every day with the work of its journalists, who are committed to recounting the aspirations of a territory in constant evolution.”

Image: layouts of the exhibition Donatello, the Renaissance. Photo by Ela Bialkowska - OKNO Studio

Donatello exhibition exceeds 100,000 visitors. And a book on his works in Tuscany comes out

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