The Venus of Botticelli to fly to the States

The Venus of Botticelli, c. 1485-90, from the Savoy Gallery in Turin, flies to the US to participate to the exhibition “Botticelli and the Search fot the Divine: Florentine Painting between the Medici and the Bonfires on the Vanities”.  It will be her first time in the USA: the exhibition opens at the Muscarelle Museum on Feb. 11, 2017, and run through April 6. It will open to the public in Boston on April 18 and close on July 9.

The Muscarelle Museum of Art, located at Lamberson Hall on the campus of The College of William & Mary, is a culturally-rich art institution and 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 the Usa to explore the themes and ideas that inspired their genius.

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 but just one of the only two such Venuses known today in the world, will be on view in America.

The exhibition will feature 16 of Botticelli’s paintings, most with life-size figures, from major museums and churches in six Italian cities, including Florence, Milan and Venice.

February 11 – April 5, 2017 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art
and April 18 – July 9, 2017 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

For more information on the exhibit: http://muscarelle.org/botticelli-search-divine-florentine-painting-medici-bonfire-vanities/

-Francesca Procopio