Embassy of Italy: Spring Cultural Events
When:
February 2015
Where:
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008


EXHIBITION - Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea


Picturing 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
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EXHIBITION - Tuscan Countess: Matilda of Canossa and the
Medieval Origins of the Renaissance


The exhibition will highlight the legacy of Matilda of Canossa, which directly laid the economic,
religious, legal and cultural foundations for the Renaissance in art and architecture that occurred
in the centuries after her death.

Matilda's enduring place in history occurs in 1077 beside her ally Pope Gregory VII during the
humiliation of the German king Henry IV at her castle of Canossa. 

DATE: February 7, 2015 - April 19, 2015
LOCATION: Muscarelle Museum of Art - Williamsburg, VA
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EXHIBITION - Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence


The 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
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