Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece
Reconstructing a Renaissance Masterpiece
October 4, 2009 – February 7, 2010
The Blanton Museum of Art recently announced an important discovery regarding a work by Venetian master Paolo Veronese (1528 – 1588). Head of an Angel, a painting from the Blanton's Suida Manning collection, has been identified as a fragment of a long-lost Veronese masterpiece. Dr. Xavier Salomon, a Veronese expert and curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery outside London, confirmed the fragment to be the head of Saint Michael, the central figure in the so-called Petrobelli altarpiece from 1565. Three other fragments from the altarpiece were previously identified in the collections of Dulwich, The National Gallery of Canada at Ottawa, and the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. These works, along with the Blanton's newly identified Saint Michael, will be reunited for the first time in more than two centuries. The reconstructed altarpiece will be exhibited alongside x-rays and other ephemera and will travel to the Blanton in October 2009.
This exhibition is a collaboration between Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in association with the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin. Presentation at the Blanton is funded, in part, by Jessica and Jimmy Younger. Additional support is provided by the Still Water Foundation and
Click here for an interactive exploration of the Petrobelli Altarpiece. Provided by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Related Exhibitions at the Blanton: To enhance the visitor’s experience and to provide further context for the Petrobelli Altarpiece, three exhibitions from the Blanton’s holdings will be on view.
Venetian Prints and Drawings in the Time of Veronese
(July 18 – November 8, 2009)
Features 25 works on paper, including a chalk study of the head of a Madonna from the workshop of Veronese, contemporary engravings after his paintings, etchings from the important school of his native Verona, and drawings by peers and followers like Paolo Farinati, Giambattista Zelotti, Palma Giovane and Domenico Tintoretto.
Altarpieces from the Time of Veronese
(October 4, 2009 – February 7, 2010
An examination of three altarpieces from the Blanton’s permanent collection, including the works of Santi di Tito, Empoli, and Procaccini.
Jacopo Bassano: Saint John the Baptist Restored
(October 4, 2009 – February 7, 2010)
Apart from the triumvirate of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, Bassano was the most original and influential painter in Venice territory in the late sixteenth century. Saint John the Baptist, a large Bassano fragment from a painting of the mid-1540s that cane to the Blanton via the Suida-Manning Collection, has been recently restored and will be exhibited for the first time.
Teresita Fernandez
November 1, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Contemporary American artist, Teresita Fernandez, is internationally acclaimed for her immersive, room-sized installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address light, space and the perception of change. Using common materials such as steel, glass, and plastic, in subtle and precise ways, the sculptor transforms spaces into gorgeous environments that suggest, with great delicacy and refinement, the beauty and illusion of the natural world. This traveling exhibition will survey Fernandez' recent works, and will detail both her methods of process and execution. A special, new installation will precede the exhibition and will open in the Blanton atrium in January 2009.
Major support for the exhibition at the Blanton is provided by Jeanne and Michael Klein. Funding is also provided by Lora Reynolds and Quincy Lee in honor of Jeanne and Michael Klein.
Drawn Toward the Light (working title)
November 1, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Paul Chan
2nd Light, 2006
Digital video projection,
Partial and pledged gift of Jeanne and Michael Klein, 2006
This exhibition culled from the Blanton's holdings and from local collections, explores the use of light as a medium for conveying ideas of perception, space, geometry, vision, and natural phenomenon through the work of four contemporary artists: Stephen Antonakos, Paul Chan, James Turrell, and Leo Villareal.
Desire
February 5 – April 25, 2010
Marilyn Minter
Crystal Swallow, 2006
Enamel on metal
Promised gift of Jeanne and Michael Klein, 2007
With a stellar roster of international contemporary artists working in all media, this thematic exhibition will explore the notion of desire and how artists have portrayed its related psychological states: longing, arousal, infatuation, despair, anger, whimsy, etc. Included are video works by Bill Viola, Isaac Julien and Amy Globus; paintings by Marilyn Minter, Georgann Deen and Gajin Fugita; photo–based works by Glenn Ligon, Miguel Angel Rojas and Olaf Breuning; sculpture by James Drake, Petah Coyne and Valeska Soares; drawings by Danica Phelps and Tracey Emin; and more. New works will be created specifically for the show by Adam Pendleton, Peter Saul, Robert Kushner, and Kirsten Hassenfeld, and an accompanying selection of historic prints drawn from the Blanton's holdings will exemplify the enduring nature of this theme. The exhibition will have an illustrated catalogue with texts on desire by a diverse group of writers, and will be accompanied by a full menu of interdisciplinary programs.
Matisse as Printmaker
May 23 – August 1, 2010
Henri Matisse
Marie-José in a Yellow Dress (III), 1950
Color lift-ground aquatint (black with four colors) (1454 – 104051)
Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
© 2009 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy American Federation of Arts
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) may be best known as a painter and sculptor, but he himself placed no hierarchy on the mediums in which he worked. Each medium was exploited for its unique possibilities and became totally integrated with other formal and thematic concerns. Drawn from the extraordinary collection of Matisse prints that once belonged to the artist's son Pierre and is now part of the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Matisse as Printmaker includes over 60 etchings, monotypes, aquatints, lithographs, linocuts in black and white, and two-color prints-examples of every printmaking medium that Matisse utilized.
The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. The exhibition is curated by Jay McKean Fisher.
WorkSpace at the Blanton
WorkSpace showcases cutting-edge developments in the work of emerging and established contemporary artists on the museum's second floor, serving as a coda to the modern and contemporary collection galleries. The exhibitions that result from these artistic investigations provide Blanton visitors ever-changing glimpses into the art of the present moment.
WorkSpace 13: Pablo Vargas Lugo
November 14, 2009 – February 21, 2010
Pablo Vargas Lugo's WorkSpace project, Eclipses for Austin, will address the feelings of belonging that collective activities inspire in people despite their unique backgrounds. The rarity of total eclipses of the sun provokes astonishment, anxiety, hope, joy, and fear in people, and compels them to question their place and condition in relation to time and place. For Lugo's WorkSpace project, 800 people will gather in the stands of UT's Darrel K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium and will stage ten solar eclipses that will occur in Texas over the course of the next 340 years. Participants will hold up black and white signs in a choreographed simulation of each eclipse.
The performances will be recorded in both a video and a newspaper, which museum visitors will be able to keep as a record of a communal experience.
Workspace: Pablo Vargas Lugo is generously supported by members of the Blanton Contemporary Salon.
Modern and Contemporary Prints and Drawings
Jerry Bywaters: Lone Star Printmaker
July 18 – November 8, 2009
Jerry Bywaters is one of Texas' most loved and celebrated artists. A member of the Dallas Nine, a group of young painters from the 1930s that helped establish a regionalist artistic identity and recognition for Texas art, Bywaters was also a founding member of the printmaker's organization, the Lone Star Printmakers. The printmaking medium allowed Bywaters to produce multiple copies of his work and to circulate his regionalist aesthetic to a wider audience. This exhibition, organized by the Meadows Museum of Southern Methodist University, features 39 prints documented in Bywaters' printmaking notebook from 1935 to 1948, preliminary sketches, photographs and other archival materials that illuminate the artist and Dallas's art scene in the 1930s. Bywaters' lithographs and linocuts of Texas and Southwestern landscapes, his riveting portraits and depression-era scenes place him in the company of other masters of regionalism like Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Woods.
This exhibition has been organized by the Meadows Museum in collaboration with Bywaters Special Collections, Hamon Arts Library, SMU. Major funding provided by The Meadows Foundation. Additional funding for the publication provided by Margaret McDermott and the Trustees of the Eugene McDermott Foundation and the Texas Art Collectors Organization (TACO).