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ARTH 4365.01 Italian Renaissance Art History

Guide developed for Dr. Hornik's Spring 2023 course

Museums

France

The Louvre https://www.louvre.fr/en

Musée d’Orsay https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en

The Netherlands

Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en

Russia

State Hermitage https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/

UK

Walker Art Gallery https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker-art-gallery

National Galleries Scotland https://www.nationalgalleries.org/

British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/

National Gallery https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

Italy

Pitti Palace https://www.uffizi.it/en/pitti-palace

Vatican Museums https://m.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani-mobile/en.html

Accademia Gallery https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it/en/

Opera del Duomo Museum https://duomo.firenze.it/en/discover/opera-duomo-museum/artworks

Museo del Bargello http://www.bargellomusei.beniculturali.it/

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte https://capodimonte.cultura.gov.it/

Palazzo Strozzi https://www.palazzostrozzi.org/en/past-exhibitions/

Galleria Accademia, Venezia https://www.gallerieaccademia.it/

Brera Pinacoteca https://pinacotecabrera.org/en/

Galleria Borghese https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/

Casa Bounarroti https://www.casabuonarroti.it/

Spain

Museo del Prado https://www.museodelprado.es/

Reina Sofia https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en

USA

Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/

National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/

Houston Museum of Fine Art https://www.mfah.org/

Getty Museum https://www.getty.edu/museum/

Museum of Fine Art Boston https://www.mfa.org/

Getty Museum https://www.getty.edu/museum/

Art Institute Chicago https://www.artic.edu/

Detroit Institute of Art https://dia.org/

The Frick Collection https://www.frick.org/

The Cleveland Museum of Art https://www.clevelandart.org/

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum https://www.gardnermuseum.org/

China

Shanghai Museum https://www.shanghaimuseum.net/mu/frontend/pg/m/en/display/index

Renaissance Exhibitions

Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection
The Courtauld UK, 
18 February – 15 May 2016

https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/botticelli-and-treasures-from-the-hamilton-collection/

 

Michelangelo’s Dream
The Courtauld UK, 
18 February – 16 May 2010

https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/michelangelos-dream/

-unites The Dream for the first time with drawings of Michelangelo’s

 

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Raphael

The National Gallery UK 9 April – 31 July 2022

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-raphael

-wholistic exhibition of Raphael’s career

 

Leonardo Experience a Masterpiece

The National Gallery UK 9 November 2019 – 26 January 2020

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/leonardo-experience-a-masterpiece

-exploration of The Virgin of the Rocks

 

Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting

The National Gallery UK 30 April – 21 September 2014

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/building-the-picture-architecture-in-italian-renaissance-painting

-Duccio, Botticelli, Crivelli and contemporaries

-videos created that are linkable

 

Raphael and His Circle

National Gallery of Art February 16 – November 15, 2020

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2020/raphael-and-his-circle.html

-26 prints and drawings in an intimate installation

 

Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence

National Gallery of Art September 15, 2019 – January 12, 2020

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/andrea-del-verrocchio-renaissance-florence.html

 

In the Library: Verrocchio, Connonoisseurship, and the Photographs of Clarence Kennedy

National Gallery of Art September 16, 2019 – January 10, 2020

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/verrocchio-clarence-kennedy.html

 

Body and Soul: Italian Renaissance Sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo

The Louvre 22 October 2020 – 21 June 2021

https://www.louvre.fr/en/what-s-on/exhibitions/body-and-soul#related-videos

 

Leonardo da Vinci

The Louvre 24 October 2019 – 24 February 2020

https://www.louvre.fr/en/what-s-on/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci

 

Italian Drawings from the Mariette Collection

The Louvre 27 June – 30 September 2019

https://www.louvre.fr/en/what-s-on/exhibitions/italian-drawings-from-the-mariette-collection

-Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Veronese, Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercino

 

Masaccio and Fra Angelic. A dialogue on truth in painting

Uffizi 17 September 2022 – 5 February 2023

https://www.uffizi.it/en/events/masaccio-angelico-en

-juxtapose artists and highlighting connection to city

 

Verrocchio and his world in one of his lesser known works: the Macinghi Altarpiece restored

Uffizi 5 December 2022 – 19 February 2023

https://www.uffizi.it/en/events/verrocchio-and-his-world-in-a-lesser-known-work-the-macinghi-altarpiece-restored

-“Holy Conversation with St. Zenobius, St. Francis, St. John the Baptist, and St. Nicholas

 

Dante and Andrea del Castagno return to San Godenzo

Uffizi 27 July 2021 – 23 August 2021

https://www.uffizi.it/eventi/dante-e-andrea-del-castagno

-Dante’s fresco painted by Castagno in the place where Dante was born and went into exile

 

Nature’s microscope water. Leonardo da Vinci’s Leicester Codex

Uffizi 30 October 2018 – 20 January 2019

https://www.uffizi.it/eventi/l-acqua-microscopio-della-natura-il-codice-leicester-di-leonardo-da-vinci

 

Leonardo da Vinci’s St. Jerome

The Met July 15 – October 6, 2019

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/leonardo-da-vinci-st-jerome

 

Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Leonardo da Vinci

The Met January 29 – April 28, 2019

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/drawings-and-prints-leonardo-da-vinci

 

Michelangelo Divine Draftsman Designer

The Met November 13, 2017 – February 12, 2018

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/michelangelo

 

Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection

The Met October 4, 2017 – January 7, 2018

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/leonardo-to-matisse

 

“Italy’s Greatest Maestro.” Perugino and His Time

Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria 4 March – 11 June 2023

https://gallerianazionaledellumbria.it/en/exhibitions/5907-2/

 

Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence

Museo Thyssen 23 June – 10 October 2010

https://www.museothyssen.org/en/exhibitions/ghirlandaio-and-renaissance-florence

-Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni

 

Leonardo and the copy of the Mona Lisa. New approaches to the artist’s studio practices

Museo Nacional del Prado 9/28/2021 – 1/23/2022

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/leonardo-and-the-copy-of-the-mona-lisa-new/e82c9d2b-7d81-5c14-cf5b-3ed5c1f587fb

 

A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana

Museo Nacional del Prado 10/22/2019 – 2/2/2020

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/a-tale-of-two-women-painters-sofonisba-anguissola/5f6c56c8-e81a-bf38-5f3f-9a2c2f5c60eb

-they aren’t on syllabus, but such a cool exhibition!

 

Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance

Museo Nacional del Prado 5/28/2019 – 9/15/2019

 

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/fra-angelico-and-the-rise-of-the-florentine/c8c45536-59a2-5e3a-9615-6daf8c3ef9e9

 

Temporary display: La Gioconda, Leonardo’s atelier

Museo Nacional del Prado2/21/2012 – 3/13/2012

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/temporary-display-la-gioconda-leonardos-atelier/599e99eb-4194-45ba-bc0f-61e4ece92d24

-exhibition of La Gionconda painted by a pupil

 

Raffaello in Vaticano

Musei Vaticani 25 November 2021

https://m.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani-mobile/en/eventi-e-novita/iniziative/mostre/2021/raffaello-in-vaticano.html

-completely online exhibition

 

Castiglione: Lost Genius. Masterworks on Paper from the Royal Collection

Kimbell Art Museum November 22, 2015 – February 14, 2016

https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/castiglione

 

Michelangelo’s First Painting

Kimbell Art Museum September 26, 2009 – November 15, 2009

https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/michelangelos-first-painting

 

Raphael – The Power of Renaissance Images: The Dresden Tapestries and Their Impact

Columbus Museum July 15, 2022 – January 8, 2023

https://www.columbusmuseum.org/raphael-the-power-of-renaissance-images-the-dresden-tapestries-and-their-impact/

 

Late Raphael

Museo Nacional del Prado 6/12/2012 – 9/16/2012

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/late-raphael/95998d9e-fd59-43ac-bb37-3e41a7df8519

 

Raphael: The Woman with the Veil

Milwaukee Art Museum March 27 – June 6, 2010

https://mam.org/exhibitions/details/raphael.php

 

Art In Dialogue: Duccio | Caro

The National Gallery 13 June – 8 November 2015

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/art-in-dialogue-duccio-caro

 

Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum October 13, 2022 – January 16, 2023

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/metal-honor

-hard to find anything else on Martini, because this is everywhere—looks so cool!

 

Donatello, The Renaissance

Palazzo Strozzi 19 March 2022 – 31 July 2022

https://www.palazzostrozzi.org/en/archivio/exhibitions/donatello/

 

Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance

Opening Saturday, 11 February 2023 – 11 June 2023

Victoria and Albert Museum

https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/donatello-sculpting-the-renaissance

Donatello, Inventor of the Renaissance

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 02 09 2022 – 08 01 2023

https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/donatello/

 

Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance to Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrochio at Orsanmichele

National Gallery of Art Saturday 18, 2005 – February 26, 2006

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2005/orsanmichele.html

 

Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence

Palazzo Strozzi 23 March 2013 – 18 August 2013

https://www.palazzostrozzi.org/en/archivio/exhibitions/the-springtime-of-the-renaissance/

 

Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral

Museum of Biblical Arts New York February – June 14, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/arts/design/review-donatello-in-a-valedictory-show-at-the-museum-of-biblical-art.html

-no original site for the exhibition, tons of articles and media coverage on the exhibition

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dmzolli/files/1_.pdf

-New Yorker Review

 

The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece

Met Museum October 30, 2007 – January 13, 2008

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2007/gates-of-paradise

 

Fra Angelico

The Met October 26, 2005 – January 29, 2006

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2005/fra-angelico

 

Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum February 20 – May 20, 2018

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/fra-angelico

 

Fra Angelico and the Masters of Light

Jacquemart-André Museum 23 September 2011 – 16 January 2012

https://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/en/fra-angelico-and-masters-light-0

 

Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence

MFA Boston August 9 – December 4, 2016

https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/della-robbia

Same Show at NGA in 2017: https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2017/della-robbia-sculpting-with-color-in-renaissance-florence.html

 

Paolo Uccello. St. George and the Dragon.

Part of exhibition entitle “Masterpieces from the World’s Museums in the Hermitage”

13.04.2019 – 14.07.2019

https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/what-s-on/temp_exh/!ut/p/z1/pVJbT4MwFP4r7oFH0lNu3R6buQSYy5y6C30hFTqooYVh3fTfW0x8cy66PrXpOfmuiKEdYpofZcWNbDVv7DtjUb6kNML-FNJlMidAl3g9S0ji3ScEbRBDrNEVyoQerl0hS5SV5Z6QMApdrxS-GwhO3HFU7t0AAEeCC4CoHKYLbTpTo6wWvZKGV-JGaAeKVhuhjQPivZbPcqDy6oARqmt73n844AGeOPBW1KJpWrS9xJHZbzhzKNh9dmkksxAkv7Pk40mA03EY3wL1NvNpHBAMEw9tj1Kc0Fq3vbKuPf7Rifgb4ZyIFfyEsJ0u8tV69mB3_5fABVn4Slnpl62_BGPbJV8OB0ZtE4bM3w3aXVWFTqmxr9wduFl6PJ2eYpUvZn7YVHQ0-gRNSfJu/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?lng=en

 

St. Jerome in the Wilderness in Milton

Milton Art Banks October 20, 2022 – January 21, 2023

https://www.miltonartbank.com/st-jerome

-Titian, Uccello, Guercino, Carracci

-works by masters and artists of today

 

The Gleam of Gold The International Style in Florence 1375-1440

19/06/2012 – 04/11/2012

Uffizi

https://www.uffizi.it/en/events/gleam-gold-gothic-uffizi-2012#:~:text=The%20Gleam%20of%20Gold%20The%20International%20Gothic%20Style%20in%20Florence%201375%2D1440&text=An%20important%20exhibition%20that%20intends,known%20as%20%E2%80%9Cgothic%20style%E2%80%9D.

-Ghiberti, Fra Angelico, Uccello, Fabriano

Paolo Veneziano: Art & Devotion in 14th century Venice

Getty Center July 13 – October 3, 2021

https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/veneziano/index.html

 

Piero della Francesca. Monarch of Painting

Hermitage Museum 06.12.2018 – 11.03.2019=

https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/what-s-on/temp_exh/!ut/p/z1/pVLJbsIwEP2Vcsgx8jgJdnKMKFISiihtWeJL5BoTXGEnBAvav69TqbdS1DInjzyjN29BDK0RM_ykam5VY_je9SUj1SxNCQ5HUMzyCYV0hhfjnObBY07REjHE9qZGpTT9sxVqg0qxpZTTRPo8JJEfYQF-vNlgnwdEcCBREhDSTwtjW7tD5U52WlleyztpPBCNsdJYD-T7Tr2q_pSjB1bqtul49-FBADj2YNtxI-RRcLS6diVz33ChUnD77NpI6SBo9QCYZEmEi3iY3UMaLCejLKIYkgCtTkqe0cI0nXa6Pf9Ri-wb4RKJOfyEsBpNq_li_OR2_-fBFVr4RlrFl6y_GOPypd4OB5a6LPSuv1u0vjEMrdZxqP01-GVxOp9fMl1Nx-FwX6eDwSe7CakT/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?lng=en

 

Arts of the Middle Ages. Masterpieces from the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria

Hermitage Museum 18.05.2021 – 19.09.2021

https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/what-s-on/temp_exh/!ut/p/z1/pVLJbsIwEP2Vcsgx8tgJWY4WRUpCEaUtS3yJTOIGV9gJqQv07-sg9VaKWnywPPKM3rwFMbRGTPODrLmRjeY7W-csKGaUBtgbQTZLJyHQGV6M0zAlj2mIloghttM1yoXun20pK5STKq74JvLcAPzS9aPYcyPiVa6I8GsAHq_s3XeX2rRmi_Kt6JQ0vBZ3QjtQNtoIbRwQp63cyH6VdweMUG3T8e7TAQIEO_ChNp3kaHVtRWa_4cKhYOfZtZbcQoTFA-AgiX2cRcPkHihZTkaJH2KICVodpDiihW46ZUV7_qMQyTfCJRJz-AlhNZoW88X4yc7-z4ArtPCNtLKzrL8YY8Ml3_Z7Rm0QestPBq1vSUKrVOQpdw1unh2Ox5dEFdOxN9zVdDD4An5lfuQ!/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?lng=en

-Cimabue, Giotto, Fabriano

 

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

The Met January 14 – March 30, 2014

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/piero-della-francesca

 

In the Age of Giorgione

Royal Academy of Arts 12 March – 5 June 2016

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/in-the-age-of-giorgione

 

Giorgione’s La Vecchia

Cincinnati Art Museum February 15 – May 5, 2019

https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2019-exhibitions/giorgiones-la-vecchia/

-single painting exhibition, post conservation

Another website—The Wadsworth

https://www.thewadsworth.org/giorgiones-la-vecchia/

 

Le Trame Di Giorgione

Castelfranco Veneto, Casa Giorgione Museum and other locations 27 October 2017 – 04 March 2018

https://www.letramedigiorgione.it/

-really interesting, about fabrics found in his works

-hard to find one exhibition site that is really clearly an exhibition

 

Mantegna and Bellini

The National Gallery 1 October 2018 – 27 January 2019

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/mantegna-and-bellini

 

In a New Light: Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert

The Frick May 22, 2011 – August 28, 2011

https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/archivedsite/exhibitions/bellini/index.htm

 

Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Academia Carrara, Bergamo

The Met May 15 – September 3, 2012

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/accademia-carrara

 

Titian: Women, Myth and Power

Gardner Museum August 12, 2021 – January 2, 2022

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/women-myth-power

 

Titian’s Vision of Women

Kunst Historisches Museum Wien 5 October 2021 – 30 January 2022

https://tiziansfrauenbild.khm.at/en/

 

Titian and the Golden Age of Venetia Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland

Museum of Fine Arts Houston May 22 – August 4, 2011

https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/titian-and-golden-age-venetian-painting-masterpiec/

 

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice

MFA Boston March 15 – August 16, 2009

https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/titian-tintoretto-veronese

 

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum

Taubman Museum of Art October 14, 2022 – January 8, 2023

https://www.taubmanmuseum.org/exhibition/titian-to-monet-european-paintings-from-joslyn-art-museum/

 

Titian and the Renaissance in Venice

The Städel Museum 13 February – 26 May 2019

https://www.staedelmuseum.de/en/titian-renaissance-venice

 

Botticelli, Titian, and Beyond: Masterpieces of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums

Santa Barbara Museum of Art February 8, 2015 – May 3, 2015

https://www.sbma.net/exhibitions/botticelli

 

Titian and the image of women in 16th century Venice

Palazzo Reale, Milan supported by Bracco Foundation 23 February – 5 June 2022

https://www.fondazionebracco.com/en/progetti_/titian-and-the-image-of-women-in-16th-century-venice/?category=arts

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