Splendour and Reason: Art in Eighteenth-Century Florence (Florence, 5/30/09-9/30/09)

Il fasto e la ragione. Arte del Settecento a Firenze
Florence, The Uffizi Gallery - from May 30 to September 30, 2009

"With the extinction of the Medici dynasty (1743), Florence did not lose its prestige as capital of culture and the arts, thanks to the government of the Lorraines, who gave the city the international profile required by Enlightenment policies.
This exhibition is the first overall panorama of the principal artistic events of the eighteenth century in Florence."