Starting November 22nd, two works attributed to Sandro Botticelli will be displayed and presented to the public in the heart of Palazzo Blu’s permanent collection.

These masterpieces come from the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris. The works, The Virgin and Child and The Flight into Egypt, were purchased in Italy from Florentine antique dealers at the end of the nineteenth century and have since been housed in the French museum. They were created from the passion for art of Édouard André and his wife Nélie Jacquemart, later placed under the aegis of the Institut de France. The exhibition also provides an opportunity to revisit a small-known chapter of Botticelli’s time in Pisa in 1474, when he was asked to create a blueprint for the Chapel of the Coronation in the Cathedral of Pisa — a work of which no trace remains.

The Parisian Museum has an extraordinary collection of works by significant artists, specifically from the Italian Renaissance, such as Paolo Uccello, Mantegna, Donatello, Bernardino Luini, and Sandro Botticelli. These two masterpieces arrive at Palazzo Blu thanks to a prestigious collaboration with the Jacquemart-André Museum and with the support of Fondazione Pisa, which previously lent Clio, Muse of History by Artemisia Gentileschi and Portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi by Simon Vouet for the exhibition Artemisia. Heroine of Art, held in Paris in last August. The exhibition is organized by Palazzo Blu under the scientific curatorship of Gigetta Dalli Regoli and Stefano Renzoni and marks an exchange of friendship among the Museum of Pisa, Fondazione Pisa, and the Jacquemart-André Museum.

The two works will remain on display in the permanent collection until February 15, 2026.