EXHIBITION - Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, IdeaPicturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea explores the concept of womanhood represented by the Virgin Mary as well as the social and sacred functions her image has served through time. This landmark exhibition organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts brings together more than 60 Renaissance- and Baroque-era masterworks from the Vatican Museums, Uffizi Gallery, and other museums, churches, and private collections in Europe and the United States. DATE: on view until April 12, 2015 LOCATION: National Museum of Women in the Arts MORE INFO: click here |
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EXHIBITION - Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance FlorenceThe first major retrospective exhibition ever presented on the imaginative Italian Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo's paintings will premiere at the Gallery. Some 40 of the artist's most compelling paintings will be on view, including beguiling mythologies and religious works (some on loan from churches in Italy), as well as one of his greatest works, the Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Alexandria, Peter, and John the Evangelist with Angels from the Museo degli Innocenti, Florence. DATE: on view until May 3, 2015 LOCATION: National Gallery of Art MORE INFO: click here |