In New York's Metropolitan Museum of an exhibition «Art and Love in Renaissance Italy»

In Italy, the Renaissance man and a woman is always a great event in his life and tried to make it so solemnly, in so far as was possible. The most important of these were considered betrothal, marriage and childbearing, and therefore, in memory of these events created a lot of excellent works. It is dedicated to his exhibition «Art and Love in Renaissance Italy», which recently opened in New York's Metropolitan Museum. It can be seen around 150 paintings and various items of decorative art made in the period from 1400 to 1550. This maiolica and jewelry, and marriage portraits and paintings glorifying sensual love and fertility (eg, «Venus and Cupid» Lorenzo Lotto painted a collection of the Metropolitan), as well as drawings, prints and dishware.

exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum is divided into three parts. The first one is called «Celebrating an engagement, wedding and birth». It includes magnificent wedding gifts: objects made of majolica with portraits and images of different subjects, rare Venetian glassware, rings and other jewelry boxes with gold and wedding chests. The second part, «Mirskaya Love», devoted to erotic and sometimes salacious images, embodied in drawings and prints created by the most outstanding masters of the time, such as Parmigianino (Parmigianino) and Giulio Romano (Giulio Romano). The third part of «Pictures of Love and Marriage» acquaints viewers with the wedding portraits and paintings on the theme of love decorating bedrooms Italians. This section presents the works in which the most obvious poetic genius of Renaissance artists such as Botticelli, Titian, Lorenzo Lotto, and their contemporaries.

exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum can be visited up to 16 Feb, 2009.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Sources: artdaily.org , artknowledgenews.com , artinvestment.ru