A Christmas Masterpiece:
“Charity and Beauty”
Vita gazette – Palazzo Marino opens to the Milanese during the Christmas holidays with a special exhibition. The exhibition, entitled “Charity and beauty,” has the “Madonna and Child” painted by Sandro Botticelli and now kept in the Stibbert Museum in Florence; “The adoration of the Magi” by Beato Angelico, a precious tabernacle belonging to the Museum of San Marco; the “Madonna with child” of Palazzo Medici Riccardi, created by Filippo Lippi; “Charity”, sculpture by Sienese Tino di Camaino, from the Bardini Museum in Florence.
Christmas appointment with the art of Palazzo Marino, which this year also extends to the other eight municipalities to invite the whole city to discover art and beauty during the holiday season. Until 15 January 2023, four masterpieces of Florentine and Tuscan art, all made between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, will be set up in the magnificent Sala Alessi of Palazzo Marino immersed in a play of lights and fabrics.
“Charity” is the splendid sculpture created by Tino di Camaino, which remained for about two centuries at the entrance to the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral, a monument-symbol of Florentine identity, and was later housed in the Museo dell‘Opera del Duomo.
The refined tabernacle of Beato Angelico, jewel of the San Marco Museum in Florence, was built around 1430 and is the result of a combination of techniques including painting, miniature, goldsmithing and carving. In addition to offering an exquisitely Christmas theme such as the Adoration of the Magi, the tabernacle offers a sample of Beato Angelico’s sensitivity towards colors, which sparkle preciously against the gold background. The work will arrive in Sala Alessi on December 20, as it is currently on loan at the exhibition in San Giovanni Valdarno “Masaccio e Angelico. Dialogue on truth in painting.”
The “Madonna with Child” by Filippo Lippi, from Palazzo Medici Riccardi, is one of the last and most complete works on wood by the painter, who created it in the 1460s, just before moving to Spoleto to fresco the apse of the Cathedral. The fourth work on display, the “Madonna and Child” painted around the year 1500 by Sandro Botticelli and now kept in the Stibbert Museum.
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