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Speaker: Carl Brandon Strehlke (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
The exhibition Fra Angelico at the Museo di San Marco and Palazzo Strozzi to 25 January 2026 was over four years in the making. It consists of about 150 objects from 70 different lenders. Twenty-eight works of art were specially restored for the exhibition giving the opportunity for close technical study of Fra Angelico's technique and the original format of several of his large altarpieces that were disassembled and dispersed. Several of these altarpieces are reconstructed in the exhibition as well as digitally. The presentation will discuss some of the issues involved in putting together this exhibition and the methodologies for the reconstruction and the display of the disassembled altarpieces as well as a few first thoughts about Angelico since its installation and opening to the public.
Carl Brandon Strehlke, Curator Emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is an internationally renowned expert on Italian Renaissance art. He served as curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1983 and has also curated and co-curated exhibitions on Renaissance art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée du Petit Palais, Museo Nacional del Prado and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. He has written books on Masaccio, Masolino, Fra Angelico, Pontormo and Bronzino and catalogues of the collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Villa I Tatti. He is co-curator of the current Fra Angelico exhibition, along with Stefano Casciu and Angelo Tartuferi, at the Museo di San Marco and Palazzo Strozzi in Florence that opened on September 26, 2025.
Image: Fra Angelico, The Martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian, detail, Florence, Museo di San Marco
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