It is not often that an entire city seems to move to the rhythm of a single name, but yesterday, September 25, 2025, it happened: the city is Florence and the name is that of Beato Angelico. On the eve of the opening of the major exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance artist, which opened today in the two venues Palazzo Strozzi and the Museum of San Marco, hundreds of people crowded the two exhibition hubs for theinvitation-only opening that took place yesterday afternoon, turning the wait into a collective ritual, a sign of how much the artistic heritage can still speak to the present.
As early as around 4 p.m., Piazza Strozzi was populated with visitors eager to experience the atmosphere of the exhibition firsthand. So many Florentines confirming a bond that goes beyond mere curiosity: it was the desire to feel part of an event that had been awaited for months. However, the lines (an average wait of forty to forty-five minutes to enter at peak times) were not perceived as an obstacle: the air was that of great occasions. The same atmosphere also prevailed at the St. Mark’s Museum, with visitors arranged neatly in front of the museum entrance waiting to enter.
The joint exhibition made it possible to perceive even more strongly the link between place and artist: many recounted that they wanted to start precisely from San Marco, to meet Angelico at his home, before moving on to Palazzo Strozzi to admire masterpieces from international collections.
Yesterday’s wait was, in fact, the first act of a kind of city festival. The streets around the two museums saw a steady stream of people who experienced the queue not as discomfort but as part of the experience. In Florence, art is never just an exhibition: it is an occasion for meeting, for sharing, for civic pride. The official opening of the exhibition today, Sept. 26, marks only the beginning of a journey that will last for months (the exhibition will end on Jan. 25). But already yesterday Florence showed that it is ready to welcome it not as a mere museum event, but as a true collective experience.
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