The Christmas rendezvous with great art returns to Palazzo Marino. Four Florentine masterpieces made between the 14th and 15th centuries are free to admire until January 15, 2023.
The Christmas rendezvous with great art returns to Palazzo Marino. Four Florentine masterpieces made between the 14th and 15th centuries are free to admire until January 15, 2023.
Masterpieces by Beato Angelico, Sandro Botticelli, Filippo Lippi and Tino Di Camaino have arrived in Milan to offer themselves to the eyes of Milanese visitors. On the occasion of the great Christmas event offered by the municipality of Milan for 14 years, four museums in Florence lent the Lombard capital three paintings and a sculpture for the exhibition entitled “Charity and Beauty” (Charity and Beauty).
Installed in the magnificent Sala Alessi of the Palazzo Marino, in a play of lights and fabrics, visitors can thus admire the “Madonna and Child” painted by Sandro Botticelli and now kept at the Stibbert Museum in Florence; “The Adoration of the Magi” of Beato Angelico, a precious tabernacle belonging to the Museum of San Marco; “Madonna and Child” of the Palazzo Medicis Riccardi, created by Filippo Lippi; “Charity”sculpture by Tino di Camaino from Siena, from the Bardini Museum in Florence.
A spectacular scenography serves as a theater for the works, staged in an atmosphere of a cathedral, recreated with a contemporary touch.
An extended exposure to the city
From December 13, the exhibition will also extend to the eight other districts of the city, where the municipal libraries will host as many important works declining the theme of charity and beauty through four paintings from the 17th century and four of the 19th and 20th centuries.
A wide route (to be visited at the Biblioteca Crescenzago, Biblioteca Valvassori Peroni, Biblioteca Oglio, Biblioteca Tibaldi, Biblioteca Sant’Ambrogio, Biblioteca Sicilia, Biblioteca Gallaratese, Biblioteca Niguarda) declines the exhibition project through works from various institutes of the city which testify to the fervent activity of assistance and charity towards the most needy and fragile subjects.
In fact, in addition to loans from the GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan – and the Castello Sforzesco, the exhibition sees the presence of works from certain municipal assistance institutions that have an artistic heritage that bears witness to the generosity of numerous benefactors over the centuries, such as the Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Foundation, the Institute for the Blind in Milan, the Golgi Redaelli Institute, the Milanese Institutes Martinitt and Stelline and Pio Albergo Trivulzio.