Exhibition Talk | "From Bronze to Gold: Experiencing Sienese Art"

"From Bronze to Gold: Experiencing Sienese Art" Stephanie Wisowaty, Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow, The Frick Collection

Exhibition Talks bring specific works, themes, or questions into focus to enrich visitors’ experience of the Frick’s special exhibitions. Offered in connection with Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450-1500: https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/siena, this brief talk considers how Sienese artists used different materials to create distinctive visual and devotional experiences. Beginning with Vecchietta’s Resurrection, the talk explores the sculptural possibilities of bronze before turning to two Sienese gold-ground paintings in the Frick’s permanent collection: Duccio’s Temptation of Christ on the Mountain and Christ Bearing the Cross, with a Dominican Friar attributed to the circle of Simone Martini. By moving between bronze sculpture and gold-ground painting, the talk considers how material, surface, light, and scale shape the ways we encounter sacred images.

Please meet in the Ian Wardropper Education Room: https://www.frick.org/map. Assistive listening devices will be available upon request.

Repeat sessions of this program will be offered on November 5: https://www.frick.org/programs/galleries?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D208965724, December 14: https://www.frick.org/programs/galleries?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D208965725, and January 14: https://www.frick.org/programs/galleries?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D208965726 at 1:00 PM.

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Louis Vuitton Principal Cultural Sponsor

Leadership support is provided by an anonymous donor in honor of Ian Wardropper and by Margot and Jeremiah M. Bogert, Elizabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard, and The Christian Humann Foundation.

Major support is provided by Clémence and William von Mueffling, Fondazione Bracco, the Robert Lehman Foundation, the David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation, The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund for Exhibition Programming, and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Additional support is provided by Filippo Benappi; Andrew Butterfield and Claire Schiffman; The Helen Clay Frick Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Hubert L. Goldschmidt; Jon and Barbara Landau; Wendy Lewison; Carlo Orsi, Trinity Fine Art; Jane Richards; Sabina and Harlan Stone; the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation; Bosilika An in honor of the Abbruzzese Family; Eric Blair-Joannou; Loren Davis; Bailey Foote; and Alexander Mason Hankin.