Raphael, Cellini and a renaissance banker: the patronage of Bindo Altoviti: Yasmine Helfer reviews a long awaited exhibition in Boston and Florence, which brings together the portraits of a remarkable patron.

Apollo | March 1, 2004| | Copyright

Michelangelo, Raphael, Jacopo Sansovino, Cellini, Salviati, Vasari: what, other than Bindo Altoviti's patronage, could have allowed such a dream team of names in an exhibition? This unprecedented and long-desired project has at last seen the light of day under Alan Chong's direction, based on Donatella Pegazzano's Tesi di Laurea (Florence, 1988). One could hardly hope to commemorate Isabella Stewart Gardner and the centennial of her museum more suitably than through the remembrance of one of her most prestigious renaissance peers. Indeed, the subject offers a rare opportunity ...

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