A lecture by Carl Strehlke
The major Fra Angelico exhibition currently at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco consists of about 130 works of art by Fra Angelico and some of his contemporaries. This lecture will explore some of the process in organising such an exhibition and, in particular, how we set about the reassembling altarpieces that had been dismantled and dispersed in the early nineteenth century during the Napoleonic suppressions. For example, how did we manage to bring back 17 of the 18 known pieces of the high altarpiece of the church of San Marco commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici as part of his renovation of the convent and its church for the Dominican Observant Order of which the painter was a friar?
Carl Brandon Strehlke has worked on exhibitions on the Assisi of Saint Francis, Simone Martini, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, and Pontormo and Bronzino for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Stewart Gardner Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée du Petit Palais, and Museo Nacional del Prado. He is curator of the current Fra Angelico exhibition, along with Stefano Casciu and Angelo Tartuferi.
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This lecture is sponsored by Alice Vogler