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The following exhibitions—on view at other institutions—originated at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with works of art from the Museum’s extensive collection and organized by members of the Museum’s staff. Please note that opening and closing dates are subject to change and must be confirmed with the exhibiting museums. Links to the websites of the exhibiting museums have been provided, when available.
Twixt Art and Nature: English Embroidery, 1575–1700
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860
Tapestry in the Baroque
Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples
Twixt Art and Nature: English Embroidery, 1575–1700
The exhibition will be organized by themes based on types of objects, their production, and use. Themes include: sources for embroidery patterns; samplers of stitches and patterns that will illustrate the primary role of embroidery in the education of young women; costume accessories for personal use and as gifts; domestic and professional interior furnishings; and portraits of royalty, as well as decorated Bibles and ceremonial objects.
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York: July–October 2008
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The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
After more than twenty-five years, the conservation of Lorenzo Ghiberti's doors for the Baptistery in Florence—called the Gates of Paradise—now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, is nearing completion. This exhibition is an opportunity to see three of the doors' narrative reliefs, with their masterful retelling of Old Testament subjects, as well as four figural sections from their opulent surrounding frames, before they are permanently installed in the Museo. Three narrative panels and four elements from the doorframe represent the sculptor's artistic development over the twenty-seven years (1425–52) that he spent executing this seminal work of Italian Renaissance art.
Seattle Art Museum: January 26–April 6, 2008
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Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860
This exhibition of British calotypes—photographs from paper negatives—focuses on the period after the 1851 introduction of glass negatives, when artists who used paper negatives did so by choice rather than by default. Contrary to the usual account of early British photography, this exhibition vividly demonstrates that the calotype flourished, rather than faded, after 1851, encouraged by the displays at the Crystal Palace, the formation of photographic societies, and the loosening of Talbot's patent restrictions. Artists who chose to work with the paper negative process did so either because they preferred its aesthetic qualities, because it offered practical advantages for travel photography or work in hot climates, or because it helped distinguish gentleman-amateur practitioners from the trade, which was dominated by the use of glass negatives. The exhibition has four sections: The Rise of the Calotype, 1839–1851; The Calotype in Great Britain; British Calotypists Abroad; and The Calotype in British India. The vast majority of the works included have never been exhibited in the U.S. or France.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.: February 2–May 4, 2008; Musée d'Orsay, Paris: May 26–September 7, 2008
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Tapestry in the Baroque
From the Middle Ages until the late eighteenth century, the courts of Europe lavished vast resources on tapestries made of precious materials after designs by the leading artists of the day. This international loan exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of high-quality seventeenth-century European tapestry. Drawing from collections in more than fifteen countries, it presents some forty rare tapestries made in Brussels, Delft, Florence, London, Munich, Paris, and Rome between 1590 and 1720, along with approximately twenty-five drawings, engravings, and oil sketches.
Palacio Real de Madrid: March 6–June 1, 2008
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Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples
This will be the first exhibition to deal with the art and significance of Egyptian bronze and precious metal statuary as a whole, artworks connected with the drama and intimacy of ancient temples. The exhibition will present three intertwined themes: the heights of artistry reached during the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1070–712 B.C.), the long development of metal statuary in concert with the changes in the temple world that forms the background of this achievement, and the nature of the Egyptians' beliefs about the statuary and its crucial role in their relations with their gods. The exhibition will include approximately seventy objects drawn from American and international collections.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland: March 17–June 8, 2008
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