STOCKHOLM.- The Nationalmuseum presents Lust & Vice, a major exhibition filling three rooms and five display cases. The exhibition runs from 24 March to 14 August 2011. Over 200 works from the 16th century to the present day, mostly little-known treasu…
Lust & Vice: Major Exhibition Filling Three Rooms and Five Display Cases at The Nationalmuseum
STOCKHOLM.- The Nationalmuseum presents Lust & Vice, a major exhibition filling three rooms and five display cases. The exhibition runs from 24 March to 14 August 2011. Over 200 works from the 16th century to the present day, mostly little-known treasu…
Selection of Old Master Prints Go on Show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin
DUBLIN.- An exhibition of Old Master prints by many of the most famous artists ever to work with print-making is now open to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). Works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, William Hogarth and Rembrandt…
Specialist in Dutch 16th and 17th-Century Drawings, Jane Turner, to Head Rijksmuseum Print Room
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum announces that Jane Turner will become Head of the Print Room as from 1 September 2011. She is the fourteenth international expert to strengthen the Rijksmuseum in the run-up to the reopening in 2013. Turner (1956, US) is an…
Exhibition at Musee du Luxembourg in Paris Spotlights German Master Lucas Cranach
PARIS (AP).- Like an enterprising Andy Warhol of the 16th century, German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder produced multiple paintings of the same subject, churning out strikingly similar versions of his trademark soft-edged nudes and angel-…
Bronzino & Portraits of Power Exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi Attracts 230,000
FLORENCE.- Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici, the first ever exhibition devoted to the paintings of this major 16th century artist, closed at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, on 23 January 2011 having attracted over 140,000 visitors since …
Rutger’s Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- On Friday, January 14, 2011, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University handed over a rare early 16th-century portrait by the German artist Hans Baldung Grien to Simon Goodman, the Los Angeles-based grandson of Friedrich and Loui…
Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- On Friday, January 14, 2011, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University handed over a rare early 16th-century portrait by the German artist Hans Baldung Grien to Simon Goodman, the Los Angeles-based grandson of Friedrich and Loui…
Israel Museum Explores the Seasons with Works by Pissarro, Rodin, Sisley, and Others
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, opened a new exhibition exploring the visual depiction of the four seasons in European art from the 16th century onward. The Four Seasons, on view through December 2011, examines the connection among art, mytho…
The World of Lucas Cranach, One of the Greatest European Painters of the 16th Century at Bozar
BRUSSELS.- Lucas Cranach was one of the greatest European painters of the 16th century. This exhibition – the first to be devoted to the artist in a Benelux country – replaces the work of this leading figure of the German Renaissance in the social, cul…