 | Guido Reni's “Annunciation” |
“Annunciation,” a painting by 17th-century artist Guido Reni, is on short-term loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, where it will
be on exhibit through April 17 in the third-floor early European galleries.
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One of Italy’s ‘artistic treasures’ on loan
to the Yale University Art Gallery
The painting will be the focus of a talk titled “Rivalry and the Annunciation
in 17th-Century Bolognese Painting,” which will be held at 5:30 p.m.
on Thursday, March 27. The talk is free and open to the public.
The featured speaker will be Lorenzo Pericolo, who is also professor of Renaissance
and Baroque art at the University of Montréal and scholar in residence
at the Getty Research Institute. He will discuss Reni’s “Annunciation” within
the context of other artists from Bologna, Italy, including Ludovico Carracci,
Guercino and Francesco Albani.
Reni, arguably the most famous European artist of the early 17th century, was
known for a style that combined idealized beauty with orderly composition.
His “Annunciation” (circa 1629) was comissioned for the church
of Santa Maria della Carità in Ascoli Piceno, a city in the Marches
of eastern Italy. By 1861, having been deemed the city’s most important
artistic treasure, the painting was transferred from the church to the civic
museum for safekeeping. It is being exhibited at Yale through the generosity
of the Comune di Ascoli Piceno, the Regione Marche and the Italian Cultural
Institute of New York.
The Yale University Art Gallery, located at 1111 Chapel St., is open to the
public free of charge 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (until 8 p.m. on Thursday
through June) and 1-6 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit http://artgallery.yale.edu or call (203) 432-0600.
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