Sandro Botticelli was a master of the Florentine school in the late 1400s and enjoyed the patronage of the Medicis, Florence’s ruling family during the Renaissance: now, in honor of the 500th anniversary of his death, a special exhibit at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan unites, for the first time, all of the Renaissance painter’s works in public collections in Lombardy.
This exhibit runs through February 28th and, as the curators said, “Unveils critical new discoveries and surprises bound to influence the future course of art scholarship on the painter. For example the famous “Madonna of the Book“, the graceful portrait of the Madonna and haloed infant, belonging to Poldi Pezzoli Museum , reveals now, after meticulous new restoration, colours previously dulled by centuries-old varnish. A dusky background gave way to what had originally been a bright, cheerful morning, too. Moreover, thanks to careful studies, has been also showed that the Madonna’s mantle was painted with extremely costly lapis lazuli dust, evidence of the original customer’s eminence“.
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Another piece showed has now been definitively traced to Botticelli’s own hand, whereas previously it had been attributed to his workshop and it’s “The Suffering Christ in the Act of Blessing“: “I could reconstruct its original context as half of a diptych, as I found a century-old image showing the Suffering Mother which had originally been joined to the Suffering Christ panel“ exhibit curator Andrea Di Lorenzo explained “The diptych had once belonged to a Russian noble, but was divided and traces of the Suffering Mother have been lost in time“.
Di Lorenzo also laments how Lombardy’s lost opportunities for acquiring a more significant body of Botticelli’s work when Ludovico il Moro, ruler of Milan, passed him over in favour of Lippi and Perugino for important works in the large monastery in Certosa in Pavia, near Milan: “At about the same time, the duchess of Mantua also snubbed Botticelli, instead commissioning Perugino for his “sweet” and “gentle” style“ Di Lorenzo explained “Quite probably the fame and fortune of Lombardy’s Botticelli collection would have been very different if the painter had had the opportunity to execute paintings for clients as important as the Duke of Milan and the Duchess of Mantua”.
To tell the truth Botticelli is most famous worldwide for the beautiful “The Birth of Venus“, showing Venus suspended on a half shell over rolling waves, and for the great “The Primavera“, an allegory of spring that is also one of the most popular paintings in Western art, but he was largely unemployed by the early 1490s and his reputation was eclipsed in his lifetime by his own pupil, Filippino Lippi, as well as the Florentine painter Perugino: he died 20 years later, impoverished and in obscurity, although cherished by landmark, 16th century art historian Giorgio Vasari for spearheading a “golden age” in art.
The director of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum Annalisa Zanni presented the event “With this exhibit, we want to confirm the important role that museums continue to have in promoting study and archival research, scientific analysis and conservation work”.
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum will be opened on December 26th with a lot of activities for families and surprises for the children.
Botticelli in collections in Lombardy
Botticelli nelle collezioni lombarde
Until February 28th, 2011
Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan – Via Manzoni, 12 –
Opening time : from 10.00 to 18.00 – closed on Tuesdays
Closed on December 25th and January 1st
Opened on December 26th and January 6th