James Bradburne, the Palazzo Strozzi's director, is dedicated to making exhibitions accessible to a wide range of visitors.

ECONOMIST: Renaissance tapestries

There is so much more to this superb show, from a gallery filled with exquisite Madonnas to the carved-wood scale model of the Palazzo Strozzi itself (1489), that visitors should allow enough time to go through it all again.

WSJ: Review: The Flowering of the Florentine Renaissance | 'Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400�C1460,' at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence