Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum
February 10 through May 10, 2009
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Jacopo Bassano (born Jacopo da Ponte; 1510–1592), The Flight into Egypt, c. 1544–45, oil on canvas
Podcast by Frick Collection Assistant Curator Margaret Iacono; link to larger image and podcast. |
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), The Holy Women at the Sepulchre, c. 1611–14, oil on panel
Podcast by Frick Collection Assistant Curator Margaret Iacono; link to larger image and podcast. |
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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called Guercino (1591–1666), Aldrovandi Dog, c.1625, oil on canvas
Podcast by Frick Collection Assistant Curator Margaret Iacono; link to larger image and podcast. |
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), The Birth of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1660, oil on canvas
Podcast by Frick Collection Assistant Curator Margaret Iacono; link to larger image and podcast. |
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Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633, oil on canvas
Podcast by Frick Collection Assistant Curator Margaret Iacono; link to larger image and podcast. |
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Link to a podcast about the cleaning of the Zurbarán painting.
Podcast interview by Carol Togneri, Chief Curator of the Norton Simon Museum with Mark Leonard, Chief Conservator in The J. Paul Getty Museum’s Paintings Conservation Department. |
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A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. It contains a comprehensive essay on Norton Simon’s collection by Sara Campbell, Senior Curator at the Norton Simon Museum, as well as detailed entries by Margaret Iacono on the five paintings on loan to the Frick. It is available online from the Museum Shop.
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum is organized by Colin B. Bailey, Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection, and Carol Togneri, Chief Curator of the Norton Simon Museum, with the assistance of Margaret Iacono, Assistant Curator of The Frick Collection.
Principal funding for the exhibition is provided by Melvin R. Seiden in honor of Colin B. Bailey. Major corporate support is provided by Fiduciary Trust Company International. Additional support is generously provided by the Thaw Charitable Trust, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Birkelund, and an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. |
