From September 26, 2025, to January 25, 2026, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco present Fra Angelico, an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, a key figure of Quattrocento art in Florence.
The exhibition, co-organised with the Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Toscana of the Ministry of Culture, celebrates in Florence one of the founding fathers of Renaissance art in Florence through a journey that, across the two venues of Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco, explores the production, development, and influence of Fra Angelico’s work in dialogue with painters such as Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio, and Filippo Lippi, as well as sculptors like Lorenzo Ghiberti, Michelozzo, and Luca della Robbia.
The exhibition also offers the opportunity to restore numerous masterpieces through an extensive conservation campaign and to reunite, for the first time in over two hundred years, altarpieces by one of the greatest masters of Italian art. The result of over four years of work, this project represents an operation of exceptional scholarly and cultural value, bringing together paintings, drawings, sculptures, and illuminated manuscripts from prestigious museums, libraries, and collections in Italy and abroad, as well as from churches and regional institutions of outstanding historical and cultural importance.
After exploring the elegant language of late 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 allows 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, Curator Emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fra 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.), 1425-1428 circa, Firenze, Museo di San Marco.