Assembled over more than 40 years by Houston-based art collector and cofounder of the Medici Archive Project Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, the Haukohl Family Collection is one of the finest and most extensive holdings of Florentine baroque art in private hands outside of Italy. Beyond the medici brings a selection from this collection to the University of Georgia, offering a unique opportunity for students and the wider community to experience these works of art.

The spectacular art of baroque Florence has traditionally suffered from a lack of art historical attention. In the 17th century, most leading artists in Italy lived or worked in Rome. Meanwhile in Florence, the Medici family of bankers and politicians sponsored advances in music and the sciences. In this context, foreign and native artists developed a Florentine baroque style that is at once sensuous and deeply religious, poetic and classical, exuberant and restrained.

Beyond the medici illustrates the sumptuous visual pageantry and the blending of new stylistic elements with established models that are central to Florentine baroque art. It also sheds light on the intellectual history of Florence under the reign of the Medici.

Beyond the medici was organized by Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl with the generous support of the Haukohl Philanthropies.