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Art
and Love in Renaissance Italy (Part 1 of 3)
This
exhibition explores the various exceptional objects created
to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance.
The approximately 150 objects, which date from about 1400 to
the mid-16th century, range from exquisite examples of
maiolica and jewelry given as gifts to the couple, to
marriage portraits and paintings that extol sensual love and
fecundity, such as the Metropolitan's Venus and Cupid by the
great Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition also
includes some of the rarest and most significant pieces of
Renaissance glassware, cassone panels, birth trays, and
drawings and prints of amorous subjects.
Exhibition was on view November 18, 2008 - February 16, 2009
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