Object Lessons: Slice of Truth, the Reality of the Renaissance
May 2 - September 8, 2013
The first major loan of 2013 comes to the Timken Museum of Art from The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525-1578) is one of the most significant painters from 16th-century Bergamo, Italy. The Portrait of Mario Benvenuti (ca. 1560), one of the artist's masterworks, will be on display at the Timken beginning May 2.
The Timken installation marks the first appearance of this remarkable portrait in the western United States. The painting will be showcased alongside the Timken's own Lady in a Green Dress by Bartolomeo Veneto, another great Italian portraitist, who painted the fashionably dressed lady 30 years earlier. Both paintings are highly regarded as examples of the trend toward realism and naturalism in 16th-century northern Italian portraiture. Moroni’s portrait will be on view until September 8.
Admission is free.
Giovanni Battista Moroni
Italian, c. 1525-1578, active in Bergamo
Portrait of Mario Benvenuti, c. 1560
Oil on canvas
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
The State Art Museum of Florida, Sarasota
Bequest of John Ringling, 1936, SN 106
Current Exhibitions
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Object Lessons: Slice of Truth, the Reality of the RenaissanceMay 2, 2013 - September 8, 2013The first major loan of 2013 comes to the Timken Museum of Art from The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525-1578) is one of the most significant painters from 16th-century Bergamo, Italy. The Portrait of Mario Benvenuti (ca. 1560), one of the artist's masterworks, will be on display at the Timken beginning May 2. |
Past Exhibitions
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Behold, America!: Art of the United States from Three San Diego MuseumsNovember 10, 2012 - February 10, 2013On view November 10, 2012 through February 10, 2013, Behold, America!: Art of the United States from Three San Diego Museums is a groundbreaking collaborative exhibition that brings together the finest American works from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The San Diego Museum of Art, and the Timken Museum of Art. |
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Object Lessons: Goya’s Self-Portrait with Dr. ArrietaMay 10, 2012 - September 9, 2012The second in the series of major loans to the Timken Museum of Art comes from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Francisco de Goya’s Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta, from 1820 and one of the artist's masterpieces, will be on display at the Timken beginning May 10. |
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Object Lessons: France in the Golden AgeFebruary 14, 2012 - June 3, 2012On display at the Timken Museum of Art through June 3, a concentration of five French seventeenth-century paintings in the first of a series of small displays of art called "Object Lessons." This inaugural grouping is mounted on the occasion of the loan of Nicolas Poussin’s The Holy Family Returning to Nazareth from the Cleveland Museum of Art. |
Fourth Annual Art of Fashion ExhibitionOctober 1, 2011 - October 30, 2011Honorary chair Zandra Rhodes and co-chairs Joye Blount and Jessie J. Knight, Jr. welcomed fashion enthusiasts this fall to see the extraordinary fashions inspired by 15 artworks at the Timken Museum of Art. The event took place over two nights with an exclusive Art of Fashion Preview on Thursday, September 22, and the Fourth Annual Art of Fashion on Saturday, September 24. Proceeds from the Art of Fashion benefited the Timken’s art education programs. |
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George Inness in ItalyJune 10, 2011 - September 18, 2011George Inness was an American nineteeth-century landscape painter born in Nerburgh, NY, whose work was inspired by old masters including the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, by the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness' maturity. Inness made two trips to Italy, the first from 1851-52 and the second from 1870-74, where he developed the tonal style of landscape for which he is most renowned. Included in the exhibition is the Timken’s L’Ariccia (read more about L'Ariccia). |
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Robert Wilson Video PortraitsFebruary 25, 2011 - May 15, 2011You are invited to join us in witnessing the highly anticipated groundbreaking exhibition Robert Wilson Video Portraits at its exclusive venue, the Timken Museum of Art. |
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Third Annual Art of FashionSeptember 7, 2010 - October 3, 2010On display at the Timken Museum of Art, five designer clothing interpretations that were inspired by masterpieces from the museum’s permanent collection and modeled in the third annual “Art of Fashion” from September 7 through October 3. |