PAST EXHIBITIONS 2006
Medici in America, Natura Morta: Still-Life Paintings
of the Medici Collections & Caravaggio's Still Life
with Fruit on a Stone Ledge
November 11, 2006 - Janurary 7, 2007
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary is the first venue of a national tour for the special exhibition of Natura Morta: Still-Life Painting and the Medici Collections. The exhibit includes more than forty European Old Master works from famous painters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods of the sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries.
This exhibition of Italian, Dutch, Flemish and French paintings and Italian pietre dure (colored stone works) from the Medici collections offers a rare and unique opportunity to see exemplary works of Renaissance and Baroque art from one of the finest collections of art existing in the world today.
Unique to the Williamsburg exhibition will be a single painting that is not part of the exhibition. Caravaggio’s monumental Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge was painted around 1603 and rediscovered in 1991. According to Dr. Aaron De Groft, Director of the Muscarelle Museum, the exhibition "gives Americans the rare chance to see one of the greatest and most important artists in the history of the world as the Caravaggio joins this exhibition with us only at The College of William & Mary in Virginia.”
Natura Morta is organized and managed by The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, which is a Washington, DC-based non-profit service organization committed to providing the finest in exhibition and technical support to museums and cultural centers throughout the United States and abroad. For more information, please visit the Trust’s website at http://www.tme.org; and the Italian firm of Contemporanea Progetti of Florence, Italy, which is one of the foremost events management firms in Italy, specializing in art, education and architecture. For more information, visit their website at http://www.contemporaneaprogetti.it
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