Francesco di Giorgio, Lamentation at the Foot of the Cross (detail), ca. 1475.  Bronze, 33 7/8 x 29 1/2 in. (86 x 75 cm). Santa Maria del Carmine, Venice. © The Frick Collection

 

맨해튼 프릭컬렉션(The Frick Collection)이 오는 10월 15일부터 내년 1월 8일까지 토스카나 지역 시에나(Siena)의 청동 조각을 소개하는 특별전 'Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500'을 연다. 이 전시에선 도나텔로(Donatello), 베키에타(Vecchietta), 프란체스코 디 조르조(Francesco di Giorgio) 등 당대 가장 영향력 있는 미술가들의 조각상, 부조, 촛대, 메달 등을 포함한 40여점을 소개한다. 

 

전시 작품은 피렌체의 바르젤로 국립미술관(Museo Nazionale del Bargello), 나폴리의 카포디몬테 국립미술관(Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte), 페루자의 움브리아 국립미술관(Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria), 우르비노의 알바니 교구 박물관(Museo Diocesano Albani), 시에나의 시립 박물관(Museo Civico) 등지와 워싱턴 D.C.의 국립미술관(National Gallery of Art), 런던의 대영박물관(British Museum) 및 빅토리아 앨버트 박물관(Victoria and Albert Museum), 그리고 베를린, 드레스덴, 빈에 위치한 소장처에서 대여해왔다. 

 

토스카나의 언덕 위에 자리한 도시 시에나는 르네상스기 이탈리아 예술 혁신의 핵심 거점이었다. 시에나는 로마와 프랑스, ​​영국을 잇는 순례길인 '비아 프란치제나(Via Francigena)'의 주요 경유지이기도 했다. 1550년대 피렌체에 패배한 이후 시에나는 라이벌 도시의 정치적·문화적 그늘에 가려져 중세 과거의 전형으로만 인식되어 왔다. 이번 전시는 보석처럼 정교한 소형 작품부터 선구적인 부조, 그리고 숨 막힐 듯 웅장하고 야심 찬 실물 크기 조각상에 이르기까지 시에나 조각이 이룩한 독보적인 성취를 심도 있게 살피고 청동이라는 매체의 복합적인 특성을 탐구한다. 

 

 

Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500

 

Frick to Present First Exhibition Centering on Siena’s Matchless Works of Bronze Sculpture, Featuring Many Loans Never Before Shown Outside of Tuscany

 

October 15, 2026, to January 18, 2027

The Frick Collection

 

New York (August 5, 2026) — Starting this fall, The Frick Collection will present the first ever exhibition to focus on Siena as a center of artistic excellence and technical innovation in bronze sculpture during the Italian Renaissance. Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500 brings together nearly forty works—including statues, reliefs, candelabra, medals, and more—by some of the most influential sculptors in this period, among them Donatello, Vecchietta, and Francesco di Giorgio. Owing to their size and importance, many of these objects have never been shown outside of Tuscany, let alone in the United States.

 

Building on popular past presentations of bronze sculpture at the Frick, the exhibition invites visitors to appreciate the medium’s extraordinary beauty and versatility while learning about the complex technical and political challenges that Sienese bronzeworkers faced. The Art of Bronze is organized by Giulio Dalvit, the Frick’s Associate Curator, who has also authored an accompanying catalogue alongside a team of international contributors.

 

Italian lenders to the exhibition include the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples; the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia; the Museo Diocesano Albani, Urbino; and the Museo Civico, Siena. Other major lenders include the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and collections in Berlin, Dresden, and Vienna.

 

Commented Dalvit, “Between 1450 and 1500, almost nowhere in Italy did local artistic traditions rely so heavily on a single medium as Siena’s did on bronze. Yet, the Tuscan city has been celebrated chiefly for its paintings—as demonstrated by the landmark exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery, London, in 2024–25. Now, we are excited to bring long-overdue attention to Sienese bronze sculpture, exploring both the medium’s and the city’s underappreciated importance in Renaissance art history. Uniting some forty masterworks for the first time in one location, this exhibition highlights the revelatory achievements of Sienese artists, which constitute nothing short of a golden age of bronze sculpture.”

 

A hilltop town in Tuscany, Siena was a crucial center of artistic innovation in Renaissance Italy, owing in part to its position as one of the most important pilgrimage stops on the Via Francigena, which connected Rome to France and England. After it was defeated in the 1550s by Florence, Siena stood in its rival city’s political and cultural shadow, framed as the epitome of the medieval past. This exhibition challenges that perception by providing an in-depth survey of Siena’s unparalleled achievements in sculpture, as well as offering a study of bronze as a medium in all its complexity. Through small-scale jewel-like works, visionary reliefs, and breathtakingly ambitious life-size statues, the show will take visitors on a journey through the remarkable diversity of forms that Sienese sculptors were able to achieve.

https://www.frick.org 

 

 

 

 

*르네상스 미술의 뿌리-메트뮤지엄 '시에나 미술의 부상' Siena:The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

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