Starting on 22 November, two works attributed to Sandro Botticelli, arriving from the Jacquemart André Museum in Paris, will be displayed and presented to the public in the heart of the permanent collection at Palazzo Blu.
The works are the Virgin and Child and the Flight into Egypt, purchased in Italy by Florentine antique dealers at the end of the 19th century and preserved in the French museum, which was born out of the passion for art of Edouard André and his wife Nélie Jacquemart and later passed under the aegis of the Institut de France.
The Parisian museum boasts a collection of works by artists of extraordinary value, particularly in Italian art, including some of the leading figures of the Italian Renaissance: Paolo Uccello, Mantegna, Donatello, Bernardino Luini, and Sandro Botticelli.
The exhibition of the two works also allows us to reconstruct a little-known page in history, concerning Botticelli's presence in Pisa in 1474, where he was engaged in drafting a work for the Cappella dell'Incoronata in Pisa Cathedral, of which no traces remain.
The exhibition is organised by Palazzo Blu with the scientific curatorship of Gigetta Dalli Regoli and Stefano Renzoni and marks an exchange of friendship between the Pisan museum, the Pisa Foundation and the Jacquemart André.
The two works will be housed in the permanent collection until 15 February 2026.
