Palazzo Strozzi

The staggering beauty of Fra Angelico

25 October 2025 9:00 am

In 1982, Pope John Paul II surprised a few people by beatifying Fra Angelico, the 15th-century Dominican friar from near…

Survivors

28 March 2015 9:00 am

Martin Gayford visits two new surveys of Greek and Roman sculpture at the British Museum and Palazzo Strozzi. Reimagining what’s lost is as much of an inspiration as what remains

‘Portrait of a Bishop’, c.1541–2, by Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo

Weird and wonderful

17 May 2014 9:00 am

In many respects the average art-lover remains a Victorian, and the Florentine Renaissance is one area in which that is…