Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities To Open at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary in February

Botticelli Painting on View for First Time in United States

WILLIAMSBURG, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#art–One of only two of Botticelli’s paintings of an isolated Venus will be
on view for the first time in the United States, together with other
Botticelli mythologies and portraits in Botticelli and the Search
for the Divine:
Florentine Painting Between the Medici and
the Bonfires of the Vanities
, a major international loan
exhibition organized by the Muscarelle
Museum of Art
in Williamsburg, Va., in partnership with Italy’s
Associazione Culturale Metamorfosi.


Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1445 –1510), was one of the most
original and creative painters of the Italian Renaissance. Together with
his deeply moving religious images, Botticelli is renowned as the
unchallenged master of classical mythologies. In his time, he also
replicated the central figure of his iconic Birth of Venus in the
Uffizi gallery in Florence in paintings with dark backgrounds stripped
bare of place and time, just displaying the solitary beautiful nude. One
of the only two such Venuses known today in the world, from the Galleria
Sabauda museum in Turin, will be on view for the first time in America,

together with many other works that have never previously traveled to
the United States.

The exhibition will travel to the Museum
of Fine Arts Boston
as its only other venue. The exhibition will
open at the Muscarelle Museum on February 11, 2017 and run through April
6. The exhibition will open to the public in Boston on April 18 and will
close on July 9.

“We are extremely proud to be able to bring to this country a
groundbreaking exhibition of one of the world’s greatest artists,” said
Aaron De Groft, director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art. “The
Botticelli show continues a tradition of internationally important
exhibitions, following Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Leonardo da Vinci
in recent years, in which exhibitions of great original works of art
provide the lens for us to explore the themes and ideas that inspired
their genius.”

Renato Miracco, cultural attaché for the Italian Embassy in Washington,
D.C. has stated that the upcoming Botticelli and the Search for the
Divine
“will be the largest and most important exhibition of its
type ever organized in the United States.”

The restless, prolific and original genius of Sandro Botticelli will be
explored in depth in this historic exhibition, which features sixteen of
his paintings, most with life-size figures, from major museums and
churches in six Italian cities, including Florence, Milan and Venice.
Every phase of the artist’s long, tumultuous career is represented in
the selection, by far the largest Botticelli exhibition ever staged in
the United States.

Also featured are six rare paintings by Botticelli’s great master
Filippo Lippi, the only pupil of Masaccio. The cultural milieu of
Renaissance Florence will be represented by several paintings by
Filippo’s son, Filippino Lippi, Botticelli’s most important student and
a leading master in his own right, a painting and a bronze statuette of
Hercules by Antonio Pollaiuolo, the death mask of Lorenzo the
Magnificent, and a portrait of Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo.

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is located on the campus of William
& Mary
at 603 Jamestown Rd in Williamsburg, Va. For more
information, call 757-221-2700 or visit muscarelle.org.
Admission is $15 during this exhibition.

Contacts

Muscarelle Museum of Art
Betsy Moss, 804-833-6838
betsymoss@verizon.net

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