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Dates: 3 Nov 09 - 11 Apr 10
Categories: Old Master 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: University of Chicago, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue Chicago 60637
Tel: +1 773 702 0200 Website

Dates: 29 Aug 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Sølvgade 48-50 Copenhagen DK-1307
Tel: +45 33 74 84 94 Website

Nicolai Abildgaard (1743-1809) is little known outside Denmark. Although his years of study in Rome (1772-77) brought him into contact with artists such as Füssli and with the early Romantic currents that prized Shakespeare, Homer, Ossian and Norse mythology, his style throughout his career remained committedly classical. His early training at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, his study tour of Italy and his tenure as professor (and intermittently as director) of the academy from 1778 until his death, were dedicated to the ideals of Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, the Carraccis, Poussin and Claude. The peaks of his career were the commission in 1780 to decorate the Knights’ Hall of the Christiansborg Palace with 10 monumental history paintings (seven were destroyed by a fire in 1794) and a decorative project at what is now Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg (1794-98). Abildgaard’s success was, however, frustrated by his uninhibited expressions of liberal, anti-monarchical and anti-religious views and his endorsement of the French Revolution—even after the Terror (summed up in Jupiter Weighs the Fate of Mankind, 1794) when many European supporters were disillusioned. Unlike Goethe or David, he was unable to make the necessary adjustments to adapt his thinking to a changed world nor to temper his classicising style with the insights afforded by Romantic interiority and emotional expressiveness. Nevertheless, in this show of 150 of his paintings, his technical mastery is obvious, especially in his handling of colour, his harmonious tones and the power of some of his subjects (shown above, The Wounded Philoctetes, 1775). The fact that Abildgaard doesn’t quite make it to the first 11, the fact that he was the teacher of such stars as Bertel Thorvaldsen, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and Philipp Otto Runge, warrants our recognition and attention. This is the final leg of a three-stop tour, having been seen at the Louvre and the Hamburger Kunsthalle. It will be interesting to see if the artist undergoes a more favourable reassessment in the wake of this extensive European exposure. Donald Lee

The Wounded Philoctetes, 1775

Dates: 13 Nov 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Durerstrasse 2 Frankfurt D-60596
Tel: +49 (0)69 605 09 80 Website

It is a commonplace that some artists reach in their old age a “late style” characterised by loose, free expression and a distillation of experience (for example, Michelangelo and Titian) while others wither and decay (for example, Pontormo and Domenichino). Botticelli is reckoned, however, to have taken a different trajectory by turning, in his old age, from a mature style and content to the manner and concerns of his youth. The life and work of Sandro Botticelli is, like Caesar’s Gaul, divided in partes tres: his Florentine early training and career, from his birth in 1444/45 to around 1478, covering the years of his apprenticeship under Fra Filippo Lippi and in which he produced works such as St Sebastian, 1473-74, and a number of frescoes in Florence and Pisa, most of which are now lost. During the years of his maturity, around 1478 to 1490, he painted most of the works for which he is famous: frescoes in Florence and Rome, altarpieces, portraits, allegories and mythological narratives. Here he perfected his personal style, perhaps best described as a combination of International Gothic and classical prototypes, an assimilation of the stile nuovo and antico, in which figures are presented in supple contours, contrapposto, graceful proportions, most memorably exemplified in the Primavera, around 1478, and The Birth of Venus, 1482-86. This high courtly style also informed his religious paintings (shown, The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, about 1490), which may have incurred the censure of the charismatic Dominican reformer, Girolamo Savonarola, who, it is believed, came to influence Botticelli as, from the 1490s until his death, the artist turned back to the simplicity and affective expression of his early work. This maniera devota, inspired by moral and religious sentiment, resulted in works such as the Mystic Nativity, around 1500, and the illuminations for a luxurious, unfinished manuscript edition of The Divine Comedy, 1490s. Following his death, Botticelli fell from favour and it was not until 19th-century art historians began to resurrect and elevate Florentine artists that he came again into favour. This process was initiated mainly by German art historians and collectors: the Berlin museum acquired the St Sebastian and the Bardi altarpiece in the 1820s; Walter Ullmann produced the first Botticelli monograph in 1893 and Aby Warburg produced his influential dissertation in the same year. Thus it comes as something of a surprise that this is the first Botticelli show to take place in the German-speaking world (pace the exhibition of the Divine Comedy illuminations in Berlin in 2000-01). The exhibition is curated by Andreas Schumacher, the director of the pre-1800 Italian, French and Spanish paintings collections, and is the first in line to celebrate the quincentenary of the artist’s death (1510). The show, like Botticelli’s life, is in three parts: his portraits and allegorical paintings, the mythologies and, finally, his religious œuvre. Although many of the works have recently been seen in the shows at the Palais de Luxembourg (2003-04) and at the Palazzo Strozzi (2004)—the fragility, the renown and the limited number of his works make it impossible to transport many of them—this exhibition includes workshop pieces and drawings from private lenders never seen before in public. Special attention is given to the unrequited love Botticelli bore for the celebrated beauty Simonetta Vespucci (around 1453-76), wife of a Florentine nobleman, who is thought have been his model for his Venuses (and with whom he was buried), and to his works commissioned by the Medici. In addition to the 40 Botticelli paintings, there are 40 by Verrocchio, Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Filippino to put Botticelli’s work into a historical context. The show is sponsored by the Commerzbank-Stiftung with support from Alnatura Produktions- und Handels, the Italian National Tourist Board, Weleda and Ikarus design. The catalogue is edited by Dr Schumacher and published by Hatje Cantz (€49.80).

The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, about 1490

Dates: 13 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Far East
Address: 1001 Bissonnet Houston 77005
Tel: +1 713 639 7300 Website

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, hosts a landmark exhibition of ancient Vietnamese art this month. This ambitious, large-scale show—the first of its kind to be staged in the US—is the culmination of 20 years of research, planning and negotiations with Vietnamese institutions and government officials. The wide variety of works on display, many of which have never before been exhibited outside Vietnam, are drawn from the country’s leading museums in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Ha Noi, Hue and Dong Nai. “We aim to introduce Vietnamese art and culture to an American audience,” says San Francisco-based independent curator Dr Nancy Tingley. She adds: “Most people in the US are unfamiliar with Vietnamese history prior to the 20th century and associate the country primarily with the Vietnam War.” The Houston museum’s in-house curator for the exhibition, Christine Starkman, adds: “People are familiar with Chinese, Indian and, to a certain degree, Korean art, but Vietnamese art is still a bit of mystery and we hope to change this.” The exhibition will show that Vietnam was a central hub for exchange between Asia and the West from as early as the first millennium BC. The 110 sculptures, bronzes, terracottas and jewellery on display originated from countries including India and China and places as far west as Rome. “As the exhibition develops, visitors will see an increase in material goods and exchange of ideas between countries,” says Tingley. The display is divided chronologically into sections. The first is entitled “Early Cultures” and covers the country’s first “Golden Age” from 1000 BC to the second century AD when the Sa Huynh and Dong Son civilisations dominated the landscape in the centre/south and north respectively. Most of what remains from this period are grave goods such as large funerary jars, ornamental bronze drums, axes and beads. The next section concentrates on the Fu Nan people who inhabited the Mekong River Delta in the southwestern part of the country from the first to eighth centuries AD. The seafaring Champa people are explored in the third section. From the fifth to the 15th century this kingdom flourished, controlling the highly profitable spice trade in Southeast Asia. Cham objects on display include sculpture and metalwork from Indonesia, Butuan and India. The final section covers the 12th to the 15th centuries and concentrates on the ceramic trade in the port of Hoi An. Several of the works on display have been unearthed within the past two decades. “Vietnam is incredibly rich in cultural remains. There are at least 75 archaeological excavations every year, which is an extraordinary amount of digs for a country of its size,” notes Tingley. Some of the most interesting objects come from a shipwreck excavated in the 1990s off the coast of Cu Lao Cham Island in the central province of Quang Nam. Archaeologists discovered a cache of 150,000 to 200,000 ceramic pieces. This find illustrates not only the varied types of ceramics produced in Vietnam, but also the obvious demand for these wares. The exhibition will travel to the Asia Society in New York (2 February-2 May 2010). Emily Sharpe

Female, probably fifth century

Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 27 Dec 09
Categories: Old Master
Address: Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku Kyoto 606
Tel: +81 (0)75 761 4111 Website

This exhibition of about 50 works from the Galleria Borghese in Rome—including masterpieces by Raphael, Botticelli, Caravaggio and Bernini—gives the Japanese audience a rare opportunity to experience a collection of art from the Italian Renaissance assembled by one of the greatest artistic patrons of any era. Scipione Borghese owed his wealth and influence to his role as favoured nephew of Pope Paul V (pontiff 1605-21), who gave him control of both papal and Borghese family finances. As a result, he was able to put together one of the greatest art collections in Europe. Many of the Borgheses’ Greek and Roman antiquities were transferred to the Louvre in Paris during the Napoleonic occupation of Italy two centuries later, but Scipione’s Renaissance collection has survived intact; it was taken over by the Italian state in 1902, and is still housed in the Villa Borghese. The show, which transfers to Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (16 January-4 April 2010), includes numerous works never shown before in Japan, such as Raphael’s Lady with Unicorn, 1505-06, and one of Caravaggio’s final works, St John the Baptist, 1609-10, acquired from the artist’s estate soon after his death. Also on show is Bernini’s bust portrait in marble of Scipione Borghese, one of a pair commissioned by the patron and executed in 1632. Bruce Millar

Raphael’s Lady with Unicorn, 1505-06

Dates: 16 Jul 09 - 8 Feb 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Los Angeles 90265-5708
Tel: +1 310 230 7075 Website

Inaugurating the long-term partnership between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence is the display of the fourth-century BC Etruscan masterpiece The Chimaera of Arezzo. On loan from the Florence museum, which according to Getty museum director Dr Michael Brand “houses one of the most important collections of Etruscan art in the world”, this sculpture forms the centrepiece of an exhibition exploring six centuries of representations of the mythical beast described by Homer as “a thing of immortal make…lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and breathed forth flames of fire”. Accompanying the 80cm bronze are antiquities from the museum’s permanent collection as well as loans from such institutions as the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The work was unearthed in the Tuscan town of Arezzo in the 16th-century and entered the collection of ruler and art patron Cosimo I de’Medici. This is the first time the sculpture has travelled to the US. E.S.

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70) Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Piazza del Duomo 12 Milan 20121
Tel: +39 (0)2 88 46 59 31 Website

This exhibition celebrates the prominent American realist painter and printmaker Edward Hopper (1882-1967), renowned for his visions of modern American life and the subtleties of human interaction. Following recent major shows in his native country, this presentation, curated by Carter Foster of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, is the first of its kind in Italy with more than 160 works from public and private collections spanning his entire career. Organised chronologically and thematically, it includes works such as Second Story Sunlight, 1960, and A Woman in the Sun, 1961 (above), both of which depict subjects from life in tranquil, middle-class apartments. Produced by the Palazzo Reale, Fondazione Roma and Artemisia, the show travels next to the Museo del Corso in Rome (16 February-13 June 2010). Katelyn Kucey

Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: piazza San Pietro Rome
Tel: Website

Dates: 7 Oct 09 - 15 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: via del Corso, 18 Rome
Tel: +39 (0)6 32650412 Website

Dates: 15 Nov 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: arco della Pace, 5 Rome 00186
Tel: +39 (0)6 688 09 036 Website

Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: via San Pietro in Carcere Rome
Tel: +39 (0)6 678 06 64 Website

Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 30 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: via Francesco Crispi 16 Rome 00187
Tel: +39 06 4208 6498 Website

Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70) Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5 Rome 00197
Tel: +39 (0)6 858577 Website

Dates: 28 Oct 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Via dei Prefetti, 17 Rome
Tel: (+39)066875951 Website

Dates: 6 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: piazza del Campidoglio Rome 00186
Tel: +39 (0)6 6797034 Website

Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 16 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: viale Vaticano Rome
Tel: +39 (0)6 6982 Website

Dates: 28 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Villa Borghese, viale Fiorello La Guardia Rome 00100
Tel: +39 (0)6 82059127 Website

Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: Lungotevere in Augusta Rome
Tel: +39 (0)60608 Website

Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 1 Feb 10
Categories: Photography
Address: Piazza S. Egidio Rome 00153
Tel: +39 (0) 6 5816563 Website

Dates: 13 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Via Reggio Emilia, 54 Rome
Tel: +39 (0)6 67107936 Website

Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Curious
Address: San Filippo Neri, Via Maria Vittoria 5 Rome
Tel: +39 011 070 2350 Website

Dates: 12 Nov 09 - 13 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Palazzo Primoli, via Zanardelli, 1 Rome 00186
Tel: +39 (0)6 686 1089 Website

Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, 1 Rome 1-00186
Tel: +39 06 68806286 Website

Dates: 8 Jun 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Via Guido Reni, 10 Rome 00196
Tel: +39 (0)6 320 24 38 Website

Dates: 30 Sep 09 - 30 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Lungotevere Castello, 50 Rome 00193
Tel: +39 (0)6 6819111 Website

Dates: 5 Nov 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Design
Address: Via Cassia Rome 492-00189
Tel: +39 (0)6 33711468 Website

Dates: 13 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: via Nazionale, 194 Rome 00184
Tel: +39 (0)6 489411 Website

Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945) Post-War (1945-70)
Address: via Nazionale, 194 Rome 00184
Tel: +39 (0)6 489411 Website

Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Photography
Address: via Nazionale, 194 Rome 00184
Tel: +39 (0)6 489411 Website

Dates: 27 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Curious
Address: via Nazionale, 194 Rome 00184
Tel: +39 (0)6 489411 Website

Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Via del Corso, 418 Rome
Tel: +39 (0)6 687 47 04 Website

Dates: 24 Sep 09 - 17 Jun 10
Categories: Curious
Address: via XXIV Maggio, 16 Rome 00187
Tel: +39 (0)6 696 271 Website

The Roman tradition of painting is explored is this comprehensive display which features about 100 works dating from the first century BC to the fifth century AD—from 49 BC when Caesar emerged as the absolute ruler of Rome to the period after the death of the last emperor of the Eastern and Western Empire, Theodosius I. The display includes unprecedented loans from major encyclopaedic and archaeological collections in Italy, Germany, Egypt, Switzerland and the UK. Curated by Eugenio La Rocca, Serena Ensoli and Stefano Tortorella, the show aims to dispel the myth that Roman painting is merely a continuation of the Greek tradition by showing that it is innovative and wholly unique to its culture. It also illustrates the continuity of the Roman tradition from the Renaissance onwards, by showing how ancient Roman works influenced artists such as Raphael. As time has largely washed the paint from the remains of ancient Rome, we tend to forget that it was once a colourful metropolis. Frescos, mosaics and paintings on clay, wood and glass have been assembled to show the vibrancy of the Empire. The show is organised into five sections: “Light and Shade”, “Deceptive Walls”, “Ancient Pinacothèques”, “The City Speaks” and “From the Rediscovery of the Domus Aurea to the Grotesque”. These sections show landscapes, portraits, mythological scenes, still-lifes, stage décor, erotic images and scenes of daily life originally found in shops as well as wealthy and more modest residences. The paintings are displayed in rooms designed by theatre and opera designer Luca Ronconi. E.S.

Mummy portrait of a young woman on wood, Egyptian, 100-130 AD

Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: via XXIV Maggio, 16 Rome 00187
Tel: +39 (0)6 696 271 Website

Dates: 19 Sep 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Curious
Address: 7-7 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku Tokyo 110-0007
Tel: +81 (0)3 3828 5131 Website