The traditional Christmas exhibit at Palazzo Marino, Milan’s city hall this year will feature four masterpieces of Florentine and Tuscan art, made between the 1300s and 1400s.
The exhibition called “La Carità e la Bellezza” (charity and beauty) opened on December 2, and will stay open through January 15, 2023.
It showcases the Madonna with Child by Sandro Botticelli, the Adoration of the Magi by Fra’ Angelico, the Madonna with Child by Filippo Lippi and Charity, a sculpture by Siena’s Tino di Camaino.
The culture councilor of the city of Milan, Tommaso Sacchi, hailed the “cultural federalism” between Milan and Florence “in the name of culture and art”. He said the show “for the first time multiplies into four” exhibitions.
The show in the Sala Alessi of Palazzo Marino, curated by Stefano Zuffi and Domenico Piraina, features a special set-up of lights and fabrics, totally sustainable and which can be recycled, recreating a contemporary version of a cathedral.
The splendid sculpture Charity by Tino di Camaino greets the public. It remained for about two centuries at the entrance of the Baptistery of the Duomo in Florence, a symbolic monument of Florence, and was subsequently displayed by the Opera del Duomo Museum.
At the center of the room, amid silk draping, is the Madonna with Child painted in 1500 by Sandro Botticelli, today on display at the Stibbert Museum.
Also on show is Filippo Lippi’s Madonna with Child from Palazzo Medici Riccardi, one of the last and most complete masterworks of the painter.
The refined tabernacle frame by Fra’ Angelico, now on loan, will arrive in Milan on December 20. The jewel of the Museum of San Marco in Florence dates back to approximately 1430.
Charity and Beauty was organized also thanks to funding provided by Intesa Sanpaolo and the support of Rinascente.
