One of Piero della Francesca's most remarkable masterpieces is brought to the U.S. thanks to the collaboration with the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, which works relentlessly to retrieve Italian masterpieces stolen or illicitly removed from the country September 13, 2013 - January 6, 2014 - Boston, MFAJanuary - March 2014 -...
READ MOREBy Emily Backus The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is exhibiting the spiritual side of two Italian masters this month. After the January 14 opening of a show of four private devotional paintings by Piero della Francesca (1412-1492) - called Close Encounters - the Met just put on show the last seven works of the iconic neoclass...
READ MOREWhen: September 13, 2013 – January 6, 2014Where: Museum of Fine Arts Another visiting masterpiece comes to the MFA in September as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture. Piero della Francesca's 15th-century tempera and oil on panel, the Senigallia Madonna (1470s) is normally on view in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, in the Ducal Palace of...
READ MORENew York 05 March 2013Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has opened an exhibition entitled "'Piero della Francesca in America" at the Frick Collection in New York. The event came at the end of his two day-visit to the city, during which he met the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the General Assembly, Vuk Jeremi...
READ MOREPer la mostra eccezionale "Piero della Francesca in America" esposta per la prima volta alla Frick Collection lungo il Museum Mile di Fifth Avenue, nell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti non poteva mancare l'occasione l'ideatore del programma culturale, il ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata.Accompagnato dall'ambasciatore C...
READ MOREOn Sept. 13, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts unveiled a single-work exhibition showcasing the rare Renaissance painting Senigallia Madonna, by Italian master Piero della Francesca.On loan from Italy, the work will be on view in the United States for the first time. Stolen in 1975, the tempera and oil on panel painting was recovered the following year...
READ MOREFebruary 12, 2013 to May 19, 2013 Revered in his own time as a "monarch" of painting, Piero della Francesca (1411/13–1492) is acknowledged today as a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance. In early 2013, The Frick Collection will present the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist. It brings together seven wo...
READ MOREThrough a special collaboration with the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, and the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host a focused presentation on the devotional paintings of Piero della Francesca, addressing Piero's work for private devotion for the first time. The four works on view have never b...
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