Now painters like Joos van Cleve and sculptors like Benedetto da Maiano accentuated the human qualities of holy figures. Just over a century later, artistic goals had changed. Gerini’s altarpiece is exceptional for being in near perfect state of preservation and demonstrates how early Renaissance artists emphasized the spiritual holiness of Christ and the Virgin. The Currier Museum has a rich collection of European painting and sculpture from the 14th to the 17th centuries, representing the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. If you want to know if a specific work is currently on view, please write or call ahead.
Please note that only a small fraction of the collection is on view at a given time, and the galleries are rotated often.
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Search the full collection to discover even more. The culmination was the 2013 bequest of the couple’s personal collection of their work, including wood sculptures, digital prints, sand paintings, weavings, and hundreds of ceramics. Over the course of decades, the Currier Museum has amassed the most complete collection of work by first-generation studio potters Mary and Edwin Scheier. The glass collection also includes work by New England makers (including Boston and Sandwich, Mount Washington, and New England Glass) and turn-of-the-century American art glass (by Tiffany, Quezal, Steuben, and others). The Currier Museum is also known for its extensive collection glass paperweights, which is of exceptional quality and represents the major 19th- and 20th-century American and French makers. The furniture of historic Europe represented by a rare table designed by Piranesi and a French 18th-century wall clock of exceptional quality. The collection also features several examples of contemporary American studio furniture by artists such as Jon Brooks, Jere Osgood, Terry Moore, David Lamb, Sam Maloof, Vivian Beer, and Judy McKie. The museum’s collection of historic furniture from New England includes exceptional pieces by Junkins and Senter and Samuel Dunlap. Historic pieces in the collection include an 18th-century painted terracotta sculpture of a twisting Baccante figure and a very rare yellow marble crucifixion sculpture by Giovanni Battista Foggini, which is the earliest decorative arts object in the collection. The museum’s non-functional ceramic objects include abstract sculptural pieces by Peter Voulkos, Robert Turner, and Toshiko Takaezu, as well as representational work by Michael Lucero and Marilyn Levine. The ceramic collection includes work by first generation studio potters Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Lucie Rie, and Hans Coper. stop at The San Diego Museum of Art.The Currier Museum’s ceramic and decorative arts illustrate a plurality of artistic styles and movements from Europe and the United States, with special strengths in ceramics, furniture, and glass. Having previously appeared at the Fondazione Cini in Venice and at the Caixa Forum in Madrid and Barcelona, the show makes its only U.S. Strikingly designed by world renowned architect Michele De Lucchi, the exhibition embodies the progressive spirit of Piranesi’s own eclectic visions and his modernity, emphasizing the popular appeal of his work and its continuing relevance to designers and architects. The legendary Caffè degli Inglesi is represented as a full scale evocation, and visitors may browse through Piranesi’s sketchbooks using a touchscreen monitor.
In addition, the exhibition brings to life Piranesi’s most famous works, the Carceri (Prisons), in the form of a virtual reality 3-D installation. These never-before-seen and never-before-crafted objects take center stage in the exhibition and attest to the creative intellect of Piranesi’s designs. Utilizing the most advanced technologies, the exhibition enables Piranesi’s two-dimensional renderings of a monumental vase, a candelabrum, tripods, a teapot, an altar, and a fireplace to assume their rightful three-dimensional forms. These prints are combined with modern-day interpretations in new technologies such as video, photography, and digital modeling. More than 300 original prints have been selected from the world renowned collection of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. Fresh, thought-provoking, and innovative, Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design sets out to show the range of the artist’s genius in a 21st-century approach to his creative endeavors. Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778) was a printmaker, architect, antiquarian, art dealer, theorist, and designer-one of the foremost artistic personalities of the 18th century, whose views of Rome remain the city’s defining image.
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