(February 14, 2017) “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting Between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities”: this is the title of the exhibition that the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, (VA) hosts from February 11 to April 7. The great painter of the Italian Renaissance Sandro Botticelli will be celebrated with an exhibition that features, among other masterpieces, one of only two of Botticelli’s paintings of an isolated Venus. This work of art, from the Galleria Sabauda museum in Turin, will be on view for the first time in America. “I am touched by the magnificence of these paintings,” said the Ambassador of Italy to the United States Armando Varricchio, “some of which are exhibited for the first time in this prestigious museum which I wish to thank for its excellent collaboration with the Embassy of Italy.” (Red)
