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The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence is a show that recently opened at The Art Institute of Chicago. It looks more promising than the usual impressionist blockbuster-wannabe. Overview (with emphasis added):

In collaboration with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici in Florence and the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago has organized this major international exhibition of approximately 180 paintings, sculptures, graphics, porcelain, tapestries, costumes, and other works of art. The exhibition provides a detailed survey of the art and culture of Florence between 1537, the election of Cosimo I de’ Medici as Duke of Tuscany, and 1631, the death of his grandson, Cosimo II de’ Medici. Featured are sculptures and drawings by Michelangelo from the period of the artist’s early association with Cosimo I, as well as important works by other artists employed by the Medici, such as painters Bronzino, Pontormo, and Salviati, and sculptors Cellini and Giambologna. Many of the objects, including some of the most celebrated sculptures from the Boboli Gardens and works from the Studiolo (vaultroom) of Francesco I de’ Medici in the Palazzo Vechhio, have never before traveled out of Florence.

Apologies to Ralphie of The Sopranos.

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