Palazzo Strozzi

In the morning I was asked if I wanted to join a group who was going to visit an exhibition about the 16th century in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi. Two people had cancelled. One of my new year’s resolutions is “I’m going to seize the day”.
The exhibition was great! I saw a lot of paintings which are on loan from museums abroad or private collections. This is a detail from the Deposition of Christ by Bronzino. It’s Eleonora di Toledo, Cosimo l de’ Medici’s wife, who commissioned it for her private chapel and was depicted as Mary of Clopas. Unfortunately, Cosimo gave the painting away as a diplomatic present and now this beautiful altarpiece is in Besançon, in France.
The extra is a detail of Venus and Cupid, by Alessandro Allori, from one of the museums in Montpellier.