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Date: March 1, 2002
Religious Paintings by Van Dyck and Titian on View at
Princeton University Art Museum
Exhibition Dates: March 9 through June 9, 2002
PRINCETON -- Two religious paintings by Flemish artist
Anthony van Dyck will be reunited for the first time in
twenty years at the Princeton University Art Museum in
the small, focused exhibition, "Anthony van Dyck: Ecce
Homo and The Mocking of Christ," due to open
Saturday, March 9, and remain on view through June 9,
2002.
Richard Verdi, director of the Barber Institute of Fine
Arts, University of Birmingham, England, is the guest
curator of the exhibition, which will include Van Dyck's
Ecce Homo from the Barber Institute and the artist's
Mocking of Christ from Princeton's permanent
collection.
The two paintings will be seen together for the first
time since the exhibition "Anthony van Dyck as a Religious
Artist," organized by Professor John Rupert Martin in 1979.
That groundbreaking exhibition was an overview of the
religious works of an artist whose major role in the history
of portraiture had overshadowed his substantial
contributions to religious art.
In the present exhibition the Princeton and Birmingham
paintings are juxtaposed with a third work, a magnificent
Ecce Homo by the greatest sixteenth-century
Venetian painter, Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian, which is
lent by the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Two
preparatory drawings by Van Dyck and eight prints after
scenes from the Passion by Van Dyck and earlier artists also
will be exhibited.
Richard Verdi argues in the catalogue accompanying the
exhibition that Van Dyck was decisively influenced by this
or a similar Ecce Homo of Titian when he composed the
Barber Institute and Princeton paintings. The catalogue
offers an examination of Van Dyck's use of sources and his
interpretation of two central scenes in the Passion of
Christ.
During the summer of 2002, the Mocking of Christ
and Ecce Homo will be shown with the Titian Ecce
Homo at the National Gallery of Ireland,. The three
paintings are then scheduled to travel to the Courtauld
Gallery, London, to be exhibited with a related oil sketch
on paper by Van Dyck that is too fragile to travel. The
Barber Institute will be the final venue for the fully
reconstituted exhibition in the fall of 2002. Princeton is
thus the only American venue for the exhibition that is made
possible by support from the Friends of Princeton University
Art Museum.
Two auxiliary exhibitions, "In the Mirror of Christ's
Passion: In Search of Artistry and Spirituality" and
"Reflections of the Passion: Selected Works from the
Princeton University Art Museum," have been organized in
conjunction with the Van Dyck exhibition. A full program of
events, including lectures, gallery talks, concerts, and a
series of films introduced by Princeton faculty members,
also has been scheduled.
Related Exhibitions
March 9 - June 9, 2002
"In the Mirror of Christ's Passion: In Search of Artistry
and Spirituality"
March 9 - June 9, 2002
"Reflections of the Passion: Selected Works from the
Princeton University Art Museum"
Related Events
March 9, 2002
5:00 p.m. Lecture: "Anthony van Dyck: The
Portraitist as History Painter." Richard Verdi, director,
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham,
England. McCormick 101.
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Opening Reception for "Anthony
van Dyck: Ecce Homo and The Mocking of
Christ," "In the Mirror of Christ's Passion:
In Search of Artistry and
Spirituality," and "Reflections of the Passion: Selected
Works from the Princeton University Art Museum." Princeton
University Art Museum.
March 17
4:00 p.m. (--$--) Music: Princeton Symphony
Orchestra, Mark Laycock, music director. "Easter: Passion
and Redemption." Works by Cesti-Stokowski, Haydn, Pfitzner,
and Wagner. Richardson Auditorium. Reception to follow, 6:00
- 7:30 p.m., Princeton University Art Museum.
April 5
12:30 p.m. (and April 7, 3:00 p.m.) Gallery
Talk: "Titian, Van Dyck, and the Body of Christ." Betsy
Rosasco, associate curator of Later Western art, Princeton
University Art Museum.
April 7
3:00 p.m. Gallery Talk: "Titian, Van Dyck, and the
Body of Christ." Betsy Rosasco, associate curator of Later
Western art, Princeton University Art Museum.
April 12
7:00 p.m. Film: Martin Scorcese, The Last
Temptation of Christ. Introduced by P. Adams Sitney,
professor, Visual Arts Program. James Stewart Theater, 185
Nassau Street. Reception to follow, Lucas Gallery.
April 19
12:30 p.m. Gallery Talk: "Reflections of the
Passion in the Art of the Late Middle Ages." Victoria S.
Reed, Friends curatorial research associate, Princeton
University Art Museum.
April 19
7:00 p.m. Film: Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel
According to Matthew. Introduced by Jeffrey L. Stout,
professor, Department of Religious Studies. James Stewart
Theater, 185 Nassau Street.
April 21
3:00 p.m. Music: Princeton Singers in Concert.
Steven Sametz, artistic director. Mary Ellen Bowen Gallery,
Princeton University Art Museum.
April 23
4:30 p.m. Lecture: "Christ's Passion in Northern
European Art of the Late Middle Ages." James Marrow,
professor emeritus, Department of Art and Archaeology.
McCormick 101. Reception to follow in the lobby of
McCormick. 101
April 26
12:30 p.m. (and April 28, 3:00 p.m.)
Gallery Talk: "The Mirror of Christ's Passion." Todor
Todorov, graduate student, Department of Art and
Archaeology. Princeton University Art Museum.
7:00 p.m. Film: Luis Buñuel, Viridiana.
Introduced by Michael Wood, chairman, Department of
English. James Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau Street.
April 28
3:00 p.m. Gallery Talk: "The Mirror of Christ's
Passion." Todor Todorov, graduate student, Department of Art
and Archaeology. Princeton University Art Museum.
The art museum is open to the public without charge. Free
highlights tours of the collection are given every Saturday
at 2:00 p.m. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday
from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00
p.m. It is closed on Monday and major holidays. The museum
shop closes at 5:00 p.m. The museum is located in the middle
of the Princeton University campus. Picasso's large
sculpture Head of a Woman stands in front. For
further information, please call (609) 258-3788.
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