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Exhibition | Beyond The Medici: The Haukohl Collection

Posted in books, catalogues, exhibitions by Editor on November 28, 2025

Given that the exhibition has been on tour since 2018, it’s laughable that I’ve missed it for so long. The latest iteration is now on view in Phoenix under the title Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection. CH

Beyond The Medici: The Haukohl Collection

Kuntsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, 20 October 2018 — 20 January 2019
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 10 February — 8 September 2019
Musèe National d’historie et d’art, Luxembourg, 16 October 2020 — 21 February 2021
Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, June — September 2021
Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida, 23 September — 31 December 2023
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 24 February — 24 August 2024
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, 1 February — 18 May 2025
Phoenix Art Museum, 28 August 2025 — 26 July 2026

Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection presents more than 30 examples of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts drawn from the most important Florentine Baroque art collection outside of Italy, assembled over more than 40 years by Houston-based art collector and co-founder of the Medici Archive Project Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl. Featured artworks by local Florentine artists and artists living across Europe reflect Florence’s flourishing art industry, as well as the cultural and intellectual legacy of the Medici Grand Dukes on the Renaissance and Baroque movements.

The catalogue is available from Distributed Art Publishers (Artbook) . . .

Federico Berti, ed., Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2019), 288 pages, ISBN: 978-8836641284, $60.

Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, a Houston-based art collector and cofounder of the Medici Archive Project, has built America’s largest private collection of Florentine baroque paintings from the 17th to 18th centuries. The paintings, drawings, textiles, and sculpture illustrated in the collection document the Medici patronage and artists of the period. Particular attention is paid to the Dandini Family of painters: Cesare, Vincenzo, Pier and Ottaviano. Essays by Eike Schmidt, James Bradburn, Federico Berti, Fabio Sottili, and Francesco Scasciamacchia address a broad overview of collecting and history of the period.

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