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Victoria and Albert Museum launches exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli. “Botticelli Reimagined” opens to the public on 5 March

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The Orchard, 1890 by William Morris, John Henry Dearle, Morris & Co. V&A London. Photograph: Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The Victoria & Albert Museum has launched Botticelli Reimagined, an exhibition which offers an overview of the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli’s influence in the world of arts and design, from the Pre-Raphaelite period to the present. The exhibition explores the different ways in which Sandro Botticelli’s work has been reinterpreted by artists and designers, through the display of 150 works of art from all over the world including Italy (in particular from the Uffizi Gallery), of which 54 works are by Botticelli himself. “Botticelli Reimagined” is one of the premier exhibitions on this year’s calendar of cultural events in the UK.

The Deputy Minister of Culture, Rt. Hon. Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, and the Mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, attended the opening events organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum, respectively on 1 and 2 March.

Deputy Minister Borletti Buitoni underlined the important contribution of this exhibition to the process of rediscovery of Botticelli – one of the most important artists of all times, who was rediscovered only in the late XIX century and whose work has been reinterpreted by several artists, including contemporary masters who continue to develop the concepts of the Venus or of the Primavera.

After having viewed the exhibition on a private guided tour with the Italian Foreign Ministry’s Secretary General, Ambassador Valensise, the Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella gave a speech at the formal opening of the exhibition. The mayor underlined the universality of the Renaissance values, perfectly embodied by Botticelli’s work, and the Florentine artist’s timeless message.

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