Russell Guerrero

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rguerrer@trinity.edu

Curator to Speak on Renaissance Art and Gilded Age Collectors

Oct. 21, 2002 – One hundred years ago, men such as Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Samuel Kress were about as close to American royalty as one could get.  Their immense wealth and extraordinary influence gave them power not unlike the princes of an earlier era.  It is no surprise then that these captains of industry would use their money to collect artwork that once belonged to royals during the time of the renaissance. As part of Trinity’s Stieren Arts Enrichment Series, David Alan Brown, curator of Italian paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, will speak on these American collectors and how they amassed many of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance. His presentation, “Merchants and Masterpieces: American Collectors and the Italian Renaissance,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the Chapman Center Auditorium.  The event is free and open to the public. Mr. Brown has organized major exhibitions on Renaissance artists such as Raphael, Titian, and Lorenzo Lotto. More recently, he organized an exhibition titled  Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo’s ‘Ginevra de’ Benci’ and Renaissance Portraits of Women.  In 1987 he received the Salimbeni Prize for his monograph Andrea Solario as the best book published that year in the field of art history, and he won the Sir Banister Fletcher Award for his Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius in 1998.

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