Monday, May 14, 2012

The Baltimore Museum of Art European paintings part 1

Cornelis van Haarlem (1619) Venus & Adonis

One of my favorite museums in Baltimore is the Baltimore museum of art. Housed in a 1920's Classical temple building designed by architect John Russell Pope, The museums collection started from a single object in 1914, The Baltimore Museum of Art’s internationally renowned collection today encompasses 90,000 works of art, including the largest holding of works by Henri Matisse in the world, as well as masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, and Vincent van Gogh.


The BMA’s holdings of American decorative arts include an extensive furniture collection that represents the major historic cabinetmaking centers of 18th and 19th century Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Many of these objects came from Miss Dorothy McIlvain Scott, a generous Baltimore philanthropist and collector.


A remarkable gift in 1933 by Mrs. Miles White, Jr. of over 200 stunning pieces of Maryland silver formed the nucleus of an impressive silver collection that now embraces objects by leading 18th- and early 19th-century silversmiths in Annapolis and Baltimore, as well as elegant examples of early English silver owned by Maryland families during the Federal era. Later masterworks by artists from Louis Comfort Tiffany to Georg Jensen are also on view.


Other notable aspects of the decorative arts collection include a rare set of five clerestory windows and two brilliant mosaic-clad architectural columns that represent Tiffany's lasting contribution to 20th-century ornament. Period rooms from six historic Maryland houses, along with architectural elements from other historic buildings, illustrate town and country building styles from the 18th and 19th centuries, and a dozen miniature rooms made by Chicago miniaturist Eugene Kupjack invite scrutiny of a variety of decorative styles at close range.














Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini) - Madonna and Child in a Landscape, 1540

Sandro Bottichelli and Studio - Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels, 1490

Sandro Bottichelli and Studio - Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels, 1490

Detail of original frame Sandro Bottichelli and Studio - Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels, 1490


Detail Sandro Bottichelli and Studio - Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels, 1490

Detail of Sandro Bottichelli and Studio - Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels, 1490

Detail of Sandro Bottichelli and Studio - Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels, 1490









Raphael (Raffaello Santi) - Emilia Pia Montefeltre, 1504

Raphael (Raffaello Santi) - Emilia Pia Montefeltre, 1504




Caterina van Hemessen - Portrait of a Young Lady, 1560


Dirk De Quade Van Ravesteyn - The Three Graces

Dirk De Quade Van Ravesteyn - The Three Graces


Cornelis Van Haarlem - Venus and Adonis, 1619






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