In the USA the first monograph on Pier Francesco Foschi. Next it will come to Italy

The first monographic exhibition dedicated to Pier Francesco Foschi (Florence, 1502 - 1567), an important and prolific Florentine painter of the second half of the sixteenth century, is being held in the United States of America: the exhibition, entitled Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence is in fact scheduled at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia, from January 28 to April 24, 2022. It is singular that the first exhibition totally dedicated to an artist well represented in Italian museums should be held overseas, but so be it (and in any case, it should be noted that, once it is over, it will stop, in any case not in identical form, at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence): the exhibition, curated by Nelda Damiano, curator of European art at the Georgia Art Museum, promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime occasion (i.e., the kind that happens only once in a lifetime: thus the presentation), and to delve into the entire career of the artist, who has long been forgotten despite his success among contemporaries. The aim of the exhibition is then also to offer a critical reassessment of Pier Francesco Foschi.

The exhibition will feature loans from the Uffizi Galleries, the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, the Royal Collection in London, the Ashmolean Museum and many other museums. There will also be no shortage of works from American museums, such as the “Portrait of Bartolomeo Compagni” at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida, the “Portrait of Bartolomeo Gualterotti” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Puligo’s “Portrait of a Woman” at the David Owsley Museum of Art in Muncie, Indiana, and Bronzino ’s “Portrait of a Woman” at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Samuel H. Kress Collection of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC, is lending two paintings, one by Sarto and one by Pontormo. There will be paintings and drawings by Foschi and his contemporaries, along with decorative arts objects to provide the American public with an insight into the world of wealthy 16th-century Florentines.

sforn in Florence to a family of painters (his father had been in Botticelli’s workshop), Foschi trained with Andrea del Sarto, one of the most influential artists of the Renaissance. He received commissions from many important Florentine families, including the Medici, Pucci, and Torrigiani families, and painted both small devotional images and large altarpieces and frescoes in churches, but today he is best known for his portraits. During his lifetime he became one of his city’s most sought-after portrait painters.

“We are extremely honored to present such an exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art,” says Nelda Damiano. “This project has benefited from the enormous support and generosity of museums, art dealers, private collectors, sponsors and scholars in North America and Europe. We are thrilled to share beautiful Renaissance artworks with our visitors and bring to light a neglected and fascinating artist like Foschi.” Foschi has never been the subject of a dedicated monograph, and no scholar, according to the museum, has ever comprehensively assessed his relevance in the context of Florentine art. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalog compiled by leading international experts and published by the museum. Wealth and Beauty is sponsored by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Goizueta Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, as well as the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art and the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation.

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In the USA the first monograph on Pier Francesco Foschi. Next it will come to Italy

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