There is an event that will mark the Florentine autumn of 2025: the major exhibition Beato Angelico Firenze, scheduled from September 26, 2025, to January 25, 2026, which brings together two symbolic locations in the city, Palazzo Strozzi and the Museum of San Marco, in a single itinerary. It is a rare and extraordinary event, awaited for over seventy years, which returns the city’s friar painter, master of the Florentine Renaissance, and key figure in 15th-century art to the city.
Entering the rooms of Palazzo Strozzi will mean immersing yourself in the international scope of a project that has involved museums and institutions from all over the world. Over 140 works, including paintings, drawings, miniatures, and sculptures, will arrive from prestigious collections such as the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan in New York, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Vatican Museums, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It is a journey that unites geographies and centuries, recomposing dismantled altarpieces, restoring luminosity to restored masterpieces, and opening up new perspectives for study.
But the experience does not end there. The journey continues at the Museum of San Marco in Florence, the spiritual heart of Angelico’s work. Here, the monastic cells and corridors frescoed by Fra Giovanni da Fiesole—the religious name of Guido di Piero, born in Vicchio di Mugello around 1395—welcome visitors in an atmosphere of silence and contemplation. It is a unique place in the world, where art is never separated from faith and everyday life, and where every fresco still speaks with the same intensity as it did centuries ago.
The Beato Angelico 2025 exhibition is not only a tribute to the painter, but also an opportunity to discover the dialogue he had with the protagonists of his time. Masaccio, Lorenzo Monaco, Filippo Lippi, Michelozzo, Ghiberti, and Luca della Robbia enter the plot of this exhibition, restoring the sense of a Florence in turmoil, a crossroads of art, spirituality, and political power. It is precisely in this network of relationships that Angelico finds his greatness: a language that starts from the Gothic tradition and projects itself into the future, with rigorous perspectives and a light that becomes almost mystical.
The project, curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke together with Stefano Casciu and Angelo Tartuferi, represents more than four years of research and restoration work. An exhibition that bridges the past and the present, capable of speaking to scholars and ordinary visitors alike, and of renewing the relevance of an artist who was able to look at his time with eyes turned towards eternity.
Visiting this exhibition means experiencing Florence in a different way. From the Renaissance courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi to the silent rooms of San Marco, the city becomes an integral part of the story. After contemplating the delicacy of Angelico’s Madonnas or the intensity of his Crucifixions, a stroll along Via Cavour is enough to perceive how Florentine daily life continues to intertwine with its history.
This exhibition in Florence in 2025 is a unique opportunity for those who truly want to understand the soul of the Renaissance. Not only for the beauty of the works, but also for the context in which they are displayed: a city that has preserved and renewed its artistic vocation for centuries and which today chooses to celebrate one of its most brilliant interpreters.
From September 26, 2025, to January 25, 2026, the name of Beato Angelico will once again resonate among the stones and cloisters of Florence, intertwining faith and art, history and the present. An exhibition that is not just an exhibition event, but an invitation to experience the city through the eyes of someone who, with brush and prayer, was able to recount the light of the divine in the human.
