Baroque in Florence

Cesare Dandini, Saint Dorothy of Cappadocia (detail), 17th century). Photo: Tom Lucas; courtesy Haukohl Family Collection

Baroque in Florence invites you to travel back to 17th century Florence, at the height of the Baroque period. Florence, the city of the Italian Renaissance par excellence, also saw many of its churches and palaces adorned with ornaments and works by Mannerist and Baroque painters and sculptors. Florentine artists did not let themselves be carried away by the dominant dramatic and extravagant trend, and developed a more poetic and balanced style. In the shadow of the world-famous Renaissance, this period remained unjustly under-exposed. More than 40 works from The Haukohl Family Collection exhibited for the first time in Belgium include paintings by the influential Jacopo da Empoli to the colourful and poetic portraits of Cesare Dandini, and the intimate relationship between poetry and painting of Francesco Furini.