1. Florence: "Donatello, the Renaissance" at Palazzo Strozzi
This historic, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition – Donatello, The Renaissance – sets out to reconstruct the outstanding career of one of the most important and influential masters of Italian art of any age. The exhibition is designed to celebrate Donatello in dialogue with institutions of Florence and the whole of Italy and juxtaposing his work with masterpieces by other Italian Renaissance masters such as Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, and Michelangelo. The exhibition showcases over 100 works of art including sculptures, paintings, and drawings with unique loans, some of which have never been granted before now, from almost sixty of the world's leading museums and institutions/