The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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Fra Filippo Lippi (Florence, ca. 1406-1469, Spoleto). “Portrait of a Woman and a Man at a Casement,” ca. 1440-44. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand
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Dec 21, 2011 – Mar 18
Daily
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. The 15th century was certainly the first great age of portraiture in Italy, where for the first time artists produced likenesses and explored means of suggesting personality. Featuring many rare international loans, this exhibition presents an unprecedented survey of portraiture in all media: paintings and sculpture as well as medals and drawings. Taken together, these works document the birth of portraiture in early modern Europe. The exhibition, which is divided into three sections and spans a period of eight decades, begins in Florence, where independent portraits first appeared in abundance, then moves to the courts of Ferrara, Mantua, Bologna, Milan, Urbino, Naples, and papal Rome, and ends in Venice. Approximately 130 works are on view by artists including Donatello, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, Mantegna, and Giovanni Bellini, testifying to the new vogue for and uses of portraiture in 15th-century Italy.
