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The more we learn about great art and its creators, the more mysteries we uncover. Sometimes, these mysteries are more convoluted and salacious than any

When Botticelli and Luca della Robbia created masterpieces about motherhood, they honored Renaissance idealism with reverential depictions of a serene

In a huge show across five museums in Florence, Italy, the artist’s fleshy paintings and drawings hang next to idealized female forms of created by Botticelli, Michelangelo and others.

What's on this month in Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival, L’eredità delle Donne, Jeff Koons: ‘Shine’, Fán Huā Chinese Film Festival, Fabbrica Europa, Jenny Saville, Internet Festival Pisa, Dante Pop, The wonderful vision: Dante and the Comedy in the Symbolist Imagination, Internet Festival Pisa, Floralia per Santo Spirito, International Ceramics Fair, Florence Vintage Market, Children's Lending Library, Marina Calamai, St Mark's English Church, The British Institute of Florence, Cinema Odeon Firenze, Female Arts in Florence, Firenze dei Bambini

The exhibition is linked to a project series titled Relocated in which well-known works receive temporary new homes, engaging viewers in an entirely different viewing experience. Medici tapestries and the Chimera of Arezzo have also been innovatively placed as part of the initiative.   Director of The British Institute of Florence Simon Gammell commented "I'm delighted and frankly astonished to see the work in the Sala Leone X because it's almost like seeing it for the first time. It has a completely different resonance and affect in this contained cube of space as opposed to the open clo...