Palazzo Strozzi hosts an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to
Florentine art of the latter 1500s, the last act of a trilogy dedicated
to 16th-century art in Florence, which began with Bronzino in 2010 and
Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino in 2014. The Cinquecento in Florence,
confronts the development of Florentine art in the second half of the
century through paintings and sculptures by artists including Andrea del
Sarto, Bronzino, Pontormo, Giorgio Vasari, Giambologna, Bartolomeo
Ammannati and Santi di Tito. The exhibition, and this accompanying
catalogue, also provides the opportunity to restore important works of
art and to construct a wide network of collaboration between museums,
cultural institutions and Florentine and Tuscan sites. The result is a
celebration of an exceptional cultural epoch of intellectual inspiration
marked by the Council of Trent during the Counter-Reformation, and by
Francesco I de'Medici, one of the most brilliant representatives of
courtly patronage in Europe.