From 19 March 2022 the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation and the Bargello Museums present Donatello, the Renaissance , a historical and unrepeatable exhibition that aims to reconstruct the exceptional path of one of the most important and influential masters of Italian art of all time, in comparison with masterpieces by contemporary artists such as Brun elleschi and Masaccio, Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini , but also later such as Raphael and Michelangelo .

The exhibition, a key cultural event of 2022, was born as a celebration of the great master to broaden the reflection on this revolutionary artist in materials, techniques and genres. Supreme sculptor of the fifteenth century - among the golden centuries of Italian art - and favorite of the Medici family, together with Brunelleschi and Masaccio, Donatello started the extraordinary Renaissance season, proposing new ideas and figurative solutions that have forever marked the history of western art. Through his works Donatello regenerates the very idea of sculpture, with a unique power of vision in which he combines the discoveries on perspective and a totally modern concept of humanity. The psychological dimension of Donatello's art embraces in all their depth the most diverse forms of emotions, from sweetness to cruelty, from joy to the most excruciating pain.

Curated by Francesco Caglioti, full professor of Medieval Art History at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Donatello, the Renaissance hosts about 130 works including sculptures, paintings and drawings with unique loans, some of which have never been granted before, coming from almost sixty among the most important museums and institutions in the world such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Gallery in London, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Staatliche Museen in Berlin, the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, the Uffizi Galleries, the Basilica of Sant'Antonio in Padua and the Florentine basilicas of San Lorenzo, Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella.