Bill Viola reconnects with Florence’s Old Masters for Palazzo Strozzi show

Bill Viola will return to Florence in 2017, when he takes over the whole of the Palazzo Strozzi for a major retrospective. The US artist, who worked in the Italian city as a young man, has a wish list of Renaissance paintings, including frescoes by Uccello and Masolino, that he hopes to show along with his video installations in the exhibition, which is due to open on 10 March (until 16 July 2017). Delicate negotiations with churches and museums in the city to turn the list into loans are ongoi