Raphael to Renoir
dal 20/1/2009 al 25/4/2009
Segnalato da
20/1/2009
Raphael to Renoir
Metropolitan Museum of Art - MET, New York
Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna. Many of the 120 drawings on display ranging through 500 years of art history, from the Renaissance to 1900, and representing a diversity of artistic schools in Italy, Northern Europe, France, and Great Britain, among other regions. The selection includes works by famous artists such as Carpaccio, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Canaletto, Rembrandt, and many more.
This will be the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the European old master and 19th-century drawings from the distinguished collection of Mr. Jean Bonna in Geneva, Switzerland. Many of the 120 drawings on display are masterpieces, ranging through 500 years of art history, from the Renaissance to 1900, and representing a diversity of artistic schools in Italy, Northern Europe, France, and Great Britain, among other regions.
The selection will include works by famous artists—such as Carpaccio, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Canaletto, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Fragonard, Goya, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Manet, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Seurat—as well as superb and poignant drawings by others less well-known.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible in part by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund.
Press Preview Wednesday, January 21, 10a.m - noon
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, 2nd floor
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York