He leaves in place a robust exhibition program that includes the fall 2014 spectacular Forbidden City: Imperial Treasures from the Palace Museum, Beijing, and in 2015 - 16, major survey exhibitions of American art, French paintings, and
Italian old master drawings.
Not exact matches
Takes a year off from studies at Amherst to live in Italy; takes
drawing classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence; studies the work of Renzo Vespignani and other
Italian neorealists as well as the
Italian old masters; learns
Italian; while in Florence, visits the studio of American sculptor Bernard Reder; buys his first prints, which include works by Georges Rouault, Käthe Kollwitz, Rodolphe Bresdin, and illustrations from the German periodical Die Stürm; on his return to the U.S., reads Dante's Divine Comedy in the original
Italian.
Specialist Furio Rinaldi looks at works by
Italian artists across three centuries, all offered in
Old Master & British
Drawings on 30 January
This black chalk
drawing for the
Italian renaissance artist's painting of the «Transfiguration» was sold from the Duke of Devonshire's collection at Sotheby's
Old Master Paintings and
Drawings auction in London on Dec. 5, 2012
Overview: Featured were 86
old master drawings, most of them
Italian and Netherlandish works dating from the early 15th century to the late 18th century.