500 years of Italian drawings from the Princeton University Museum
On View February 16 – June 23, 2024. Benton Museum of Art Pomona College, 120 W. Bonita Avenue, Claremont, CA. The Princeton University Art Museum’s collection of more than one thousand Italian drawings is renowned for its quality, scope, and scholarly importance. This exhibition showcases ninety-five rarely seen works from the late fifteenth to ea...
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Last Major Altarpiece By Venetian Rococo Painter Tiepolo In Private Hands May Fetch More Than $15 Million
Draped in a flowing regal red dress, a rosy-cheeked Madonna tilts her pelvis to the viewer’s right, dangling a rosary from her left hand and barely grasping her child with her right hand. Her heavy eyelids evoke a dreamlike state, the dramatic gestures amplified by chiaroscuro lighting. Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo’s Madonna of The Ro...
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