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From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A Century of Italian Drawings

October 25, 2008 - January 4, 2009

Marking the first time that most of these extraordinary sixteenth-century works have appeared outside the walls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, this exhibition of seventy superb drawings explores the working methods of the most important artists active in Italy during a time of unprecedented artistic patronage. Focusing on the period from Mannerism to the early Baroque (1520–1620), the works have been selected by Guest Curator Nicholas Turner, formerly of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Museum, and a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque drawings. Guilio Romano, Paolo Veronese, Giorgio Vasari, and Andrea del Sarto are just a few of the artists represented by detailed studies for commissioned works as well as intimate “primi pensieri”—the quick sketches that captured the “heat” of a creative moment. Research in preparation for the exhibition revealed that the two Michelangelo drawings included are figure studies for the Sistine Chapel’s Last Judgment. This exhibition is organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia.

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The Road to Impressionism: Barbizon Landscapes from the Walters Art Museum

February 7, 2009 - May 3, 2009

The work of the Barbizon school dovetails with most of the major artistic movements of mid-nineteenth-century France, with the intensely expressive trees of Diaz and Rousseau conveying the Romantic approach of earlier in the nineteenth century, and Millet’s interest in the life of the rural laborer becoming a powerful force in the rise of Realism. This exhibition examines the enduring legacy of this group of artists and includes paintings by Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), Jean-Baptiste- Camille Corot (1796–1875), and Claude-Oscar Monet (1840–1926) whose 1871 painting Windmills Near Zaandam owes much to the earthy palette and emotional depictions of nature typical of the Barbizon school. Paintings by Barbizon artists were highly sought after by American collectors like Henry Clay Frick and William Walters, who in their Gilded Age mansions, could experience the reverence for the countryside as espoused by Théodore Rousseau, who “heard the voices of the trees and wanted to put his finger on the secret of their majesty.” Organized by The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

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The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

July 11, 2009 - September 20, 2009

This exhibition comprises forty influential paintings by the famed masters of the Dutch Italianate style selected from the collection of The Dulwich Picture Gallery, England’s oldest public art gallery. Dutch Italianate Paintings features work dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by artists such as Aelbert Cuyp, Nicolaes Berchem, Karel Dujardin, Philips Wouwermans and Adam Pynacker. The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, London is organized and circulated by International Arts & Artists.

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