The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero (b. 1932) is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman who depicts the comedy of human life -- moving or wry, baroque in expression, sometimes with a mocking observation, sometimes with a deep, elementary emotion ...
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From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A CENTURY OF ITALIAN DRAWINGS FROM THE PRADO![Giulio Romano, (Rome, [?] 1499 - Mantua, 1546),](/gallery/95028.jpg "Giulio Romano, (Rome, [?] 1499 - Mantua, 1546),")
Marking the first time that most of these extraordinary 16th-century works have appeared outside the walls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, this exhibition of 70 superb drawings explores the working methods of the most important artists active in Italy during a time of unprecedented artistic patronage.
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Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: THE ROYAL HOLLOWAY COLLECTION, LONDON
This exhibition showcases 60 extraordinary paintings illustrating some of the highest achievements in figurative and landscape art of the 19th century. Acquired by Thomas Holloway to enhance the women’s college he had founded in 1879, the collection includes many of the most visible and praised “modern canvasses” in London in the 1880s.
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Muraqqa': IMPERIAL MUGHAL ALBUMS from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Among the most remarkable of all albums ever created are those made in the years 1600-1657 for the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan. The Mughal dynasty ruled India for more than three centuries, but the period of greatest artistic production was that of these two great emperors, and the albums of paintings and calligraphy (called muraqqa’ in Persian) that they assembled now serve as a window to understanding the history and culture of this part of the world. The paintings in the albums include formal portraits of the emperors themselves, depictions of members of the royal family in relaxed private settings, portraits of courtiers, Sufi saints and mystics, genre scenes, and natural history subjects.
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FASHIONING KIMONO: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan
Woman's Kimono; Late Taisho-early Showa period, 1920s-1930s; machine-spun pangee silk, plain weave, stencil-printed warp and weft threads; The Montgomery Collection, LuganoThis exhibition includes 97 kimono created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – one of the most dynamic periods in the history of Japan’s national costume. It includes formal, semi-formal, and casual kimono, haori jackets, and undergarments worn by men, women, and children.
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Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum
The Pre-Raphaelite movement began in 1848, when three young British art students -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais -- banded together with other like-minded artists to revolutionize British art. Rebelling against the artistic traditions of the Royal Academy, they preferred the simplicity and monastic principles of late medieval art preceding the Renaissance master, Raphael. The Pre-Raphaelite collection of the Delaware Art Museum is the most significant outside Great Britain. Included in this exhibition are a large group of oils and watercolors by Rossetti, as well as works by Edward Burne-Jones, Fredrick Sandys, Ford Madox Brown, Hunt, Millais, and others. Complementing this array of two-dimensional works are decorative arts that embody the genesis of the Arts and Crafts movement, including two chairs designed by William Morris and Rossetti, jewelry, ceramics, and metalwork.
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Passion for Drawing: Poussin to Cézanne, Works from the Prat Collection
This exhibition of 100 important drawings traces the evolution of French art from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the dawn of the twentieth century, beginning with the Late Mannerist style of Jacques Callot and continuing through the triumph of Impressionism with works by Manet, Degas, and Cezanne. Included are landscapes and portraits, red chalk and lead pencil, meticulously finished drawings and sketches hastily thrown onto paper. Begun by Louis-Antoine and Véronique Prat in 1974, the collection includes works by great masters as well as superb examples by less well known artists. It provides one of the most in-depth explorations of the art of French draftsmanship in the entire world, and is now considered to be the most beautiful collection of French drawings in private hands.
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SAINT PETER AND THE VATICAN: The Legacy of the Popes
The history of the Papacy is as old as Christianity itself. The Popes were the successors of the Apostle Peter and have governed the Catholic Church for nearly 2000 years. In our own time, the Popes have become some of the most important of world spiritual leaders, but the ministry has actually changed very little over time. The more than 350 extraordinary objects assembled to illustrate this rich history will be drawn not only from the vast collections of the Vatican Museums, but also from the churches and archives administered by the Vatican. Architectural settings have been designed to display the works in context, which include such relics as the Sarcophagus of the Good Shepherd (early 4th century) and the Mandylion of Edessa (c. 3rd-5th century), which is by far the oldest image of Jesus Christ preserved in Rome, as well as works by well known artists such as Giotto, Bernini, Cellini, and Canova. This is the largest exhibition from the Vatican to come to North America, and the first major exhibition to contain objects from the Pontifical Sacristy.
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THE DEVONSHIRE INHERITANCE: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth
Chatsworth, home of the Cavendish family as well as the Earls and then Dukes of Devonshire since the 16th century, contains one of the most important private art collections in England and the world's greatest private library. This exhibition focuses on the family's private collection of objects that are rarely exhibited -- precious cabinet paintings, old master drawings, masterpieces of the great gold-and-silversmiths, gems and jewelry, natural curiosities, scientific instruments, and important books and manuscripts -- assembled over nearly 500 years. Approximately 250 pieces illustrate the growth of the Chatsworth collection and successive generations' changing tastes as well as explore the way of life of those that have lived and entertained friends and the public in this great house.
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Quiet Beauty: Fifty Centuries of Japanese Folk Ceramics from the Montgomery Collection
Japan's ceramic history is the longest in the world. One hundred folk ceramics, dating from 3000 B.C. to 1985, comprise the first exhibition outside Japan to explore this range of ceramic production. Produced for use by farmers, artisans, and merchants, these objects are astonishing in their wide variety and profound aesthetic impact. The exhibition is arranged chronologically and includes cooking beakers; wine jars; tomb vessels and tomb figures; storage jars; grinding and mixing bowls; plates, dishes, and bowls in stoneware and porcelain; sake bottles and flasks; oil-drip plates; sculptural alcove ornaments; and flower-arranging vases. Folk ceramics were nearly all anonymous until the 1920s, but several famous 20th-century potters -- designated Living National Treasures by the Japanese government -- are represented.
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Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century French Drawings from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen
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This exhibition is drawn from the oldest documented graphics collection in the world -- that of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Begun in 1521 when Albrecht Dürer donated his own drawings to King Christian II to become part of the royal collections, the graphics collection now contains more than 80,000 graphic works. Most of the drawings in this exhibition have rarely been seen outside Denmark, and thus provide a rare opportunity to experience some of Denmark's little-known artistic treasures.
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Treasures of an Unknown Reign: SHUNZHI PORCELAIN
The seventeenth century is the last field of Chinese porcelain production that has yet to be extensively explored, and the porcelain created during the 17-year reign of Shunzhi -- the boy sovereign and first Qing Emperor of China -- is the least well-known of all. This exhibition demonstrates the great creativity of this period and identifies the new ceramic shapes and styles of painting characteristic of the reign. Blue and White and wucai (underglaze blue and enamels) predominate, depicting animals, mythical beasts, landscapes, plants, flowers, and narrative scenes. Also represented are a wide variety of other types including monochromes in white, yellow, and deep and light blue. Works are drawn from public and private collections in England, France, and the United States, including the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Butler Family Collection (the largest collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world.)
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Grandma Moses in the 21st Century
Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860-1961) was one of the most popular artists in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s, and was perhaps the best known American artist in the world. Drawn from public and private collections in the United States and Japan, over 80 of her most important paintings have been assembled in order to reexamine her art, both on its own merits and in the context of modern art history.
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Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection
At its zenith, the Ottoman Empire extended from Anatolia to the Balkans and Hungary, and included Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Arabia, and most of North Africa. This major exhibition highlights the rich artistic heritage of one of the most significant states in the history of Europe and the Middle East. Through over 250 objects ranging from arms, armor, and scientific instruments to textiles, treasury objects, and manuscripts, the show embraces every aspect of Ottoman art -- its expression in religious, military, administrative and daily life -- as well as the central role of imperial patronage in a dynasty which spanned more than six centuries. The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
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Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland 1572-1764
The Cecil Family Collects: Four Centuries of Decorative Arts from Burghley House
Nineteenth-Century Dutch Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Invisible Made Visible: Angels from the Vatican
Interaction of Cultures: Indian and Western Painting (1780-1910), The Ehrenfeld Collection
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of independence for the Indian Subcontinent, this exhibition highlights the artistic interaction in India between Indian and Western (European and American) artists from 1780 to 1910. The 95 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints in the exhibition are drawn from the collection of William Ehrenfeld, M.D - considered to be one of the most important private collections of Indian art in the U.S. Dr. Joachim K. Bautze, Chairman of the South Asian Institute at Heidelberg University, and Guest Curator of the exhibition selected the superb pieces to demonstrate the artistic evolution in India of the non-Indian artist - from historical depictions to purely aesthetic studies - and his Indian counterpart - from European-employed native painter to independent artist.
Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau
A Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum
Old Masters Brought to Light: European Paintings from the National Museum of Art of Romania
Munch and Women: Image and Myth
Two Hundred Years of English Naive Art 1700-1900
Mingei: Japanese Folk Art from the Montgomery Collection
Shaker: The Art of Craftsmanship
Drawings from the Albertina: Landscape in the Age of Rembrandt
Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Italian Paintings from Burghley House
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Egon Schiele
Nineteenth-Century German, Austrian and Hungarian Drawings from Budapest
Three Centuries of Roman Drawings from the Villa Farnesina, Rome
Wenceslaus Hollar: Seventeenth-Century Prints from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Eighteenth-Century Dutch Watercolors from the Rijksmuseum Printroom, Amsterdam
From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II: Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Thomas Lawrence: Portraits of an Age, 1790-1830
FABERGÉ: Imperial Jeweler
Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection
Tales of Japan: Three Centuries of Japanese Painting from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
The History of Italian Drawings 1350-1800, Masterworks from the Albertina
Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Paintings: The Harold Samuel Collection
Josef Albers: Works on Paper
J. J. Tissot: Prints from the Gotlieb Collection
To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum
Through Romantic Eyes: European Images of the Nineteenth-Century Greece from the Benaki Museum, Athe
The Art of Thomas Rowlandson
Eighteenth-Century Scenic and Architectural Design: Drawings by the Galli Bibiena Family
Art That Works: The Decorative Arts of the Eighties, Crafted in America
Adolf Menzel, 1815-1905: Master Drawings from East Berlin
The Art of Babar: Drawings and Watercolors by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff
Edvard Munch: Master Prints from the Epstein Family Collection
From Pisanello to Cézanne: Master Drawings from the Museum Boymans-van Beuingen, Rotterdam
Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection
American Paintings from a Century of Collecting: The Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Virtue Rewarded: Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection
Gold and Silver Treasures from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Impressionist and Post - Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtald Collection
Surimono From the Chester Beatty Collection
Gainsborough Drawings
