The return of 60 of the Wadsworth Atheneum's renowned Old Master paintings from a three-year national tour provides opportunity to pair these with equally rich and varied sculpture and decorative arts from the museum's permanent collections. The paintings include works by Fra Angelico, Caravaggio, Hals, Zurbarán, Canaletto, Boucher, and Tiepolo. In addition, the exhibition will feature nineteenth-century masterworks of the Neo-classical and Romantic schools by Ingres, Delacroix, and others. The sculpture and decorative arts comprise dazzling objects made of bronze, silver, ivory, ceramics, and glass. These works of art– many of them objects of devotion, display, or practical use, and symbols of status or intellectual achievement– will be shown as they have never been before, combined with paintings and sculpture in chronological and thematic settings. Faith and Fortune will celebrate five centuries of artistic genius while also exploring the cultural and social realms in which these remarkable works were created.
at right: Juan de Valdes Leal, Vanitas, c.1660. Oil on canvas. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1939.270. Funders
Presenting Sponsorship is provided by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Lead Sponsorship is provided by The Larsen Fund, the Decorative Arts Council of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Genomas, Inc. This exhibition is supported in part by the Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign and the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
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