Berlin – Exhibition ‘Botticelli Renaissance’ launched

A press conference was recently held in Berlin to launch the exhibition “Botticelli. 2015-1445. The Botticelli Renaissance”. Attendees included Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Eissenhauer. The exhibition is set to open in September and intends to retrace the 19^th and 20^th century rediscovery of the great Florentine master, and will focus not only on contemporary art but also phenomena related to mass culture, ranging from music to fashion and advertising. A full forty of Botticelli’s paintings, as well as some precious etchings will flank a programme put together by the Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin that offers a look at the artist’s work was absorbed into literature, theatre, music and mass culture – especially fashion. The exhibit will run through 24 January 2016, before moving on to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

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