The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition "The Material of Culture: Renaissance Medals and Textiles from the Ulrich A. Middeldorf Collection" Oct. 26 to Jan. 12. Comprising works on loan from Indiana University Art Museum, this exhibition features rarely seen works of Italian Renaissance and Baroque decorative arts collected by German-American art historian Ulrich A. Middeldorf.

The exhibition will also feature a 15th-century dalmatic, or liturgical robe, borrowed from the Detroit Institute of Arts. The dalmatic will provide context for the fragmented pieces of liturgical textiles from the Middeldorf collection. Other objects in the exhibition convey changing styles and techniques in medals and textiles during the Italian Renaissance and Baroque period. Perri Lee Roberts, professor of art history at the University of Miami, is curator of the exhibition and author of its accompanying catalogue, which the museum is publishing.

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