Saturday, November 2nd Live on Zoom
6pm Italy, 10am Los Angeles, 1pm New York
On September 28, 2024, a major exhibition documenting interactions between Venice and the Ottoman Empire over four centuries (ca. 1400-1800) will begin a year-long tour of the American Southeast in Raleigh, North Carolina. Over half of the 190 assembled works hail from the Musei Civici di Venezia (MUVE). Highlights include paintings by Vittore Carpaccio and Gentile Bellini and an array of Venetian and Ottoman textiles, ceramics, metalwork, glassware, armor, printed books, woodcuts, and leather wares. The Venetian loans are joined by a trove of recently excavated finds from one of the most important post-medieval Mediterranean shipwrecks, the Gagliana Grossa that sank near the islet of Gnalić off the Dalmatian coast while transporting luxury goods from Venice to Istanbul in 1583. These wares, destined for Topkapi Palace and commercial markets in Istanbul, have never been exhibited outside of Europe.
Lyle Humphrey, will present an overview of the exhibition’s presentation in Raleigh, which includes related Venetian and Ottoman works from the NCMA, Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Gregg Museum of Art + Design at NC State University. This exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and The Museum Box and curated by Stefano Carboni.
Venice and the Ottoman Empire: NCMA, Raleigh (September 28, 2024 to January 5, 2025); Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA (January 31–May 4, 2025); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (May 29–September 1, 2025)
Dr. Humphrey is Associate Curator of European Art and Collections history at the North Carolina Museum of Art, where her research and publications explore a range of topics: Northern Italian painting, manuscript illumination, and the collecting of ancient, medieval, and early modern art in America. Since joining the NCMA, Humphrey has curated a focus exhibition on a rediscovered bronze medallion designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini (2014), a loan exhibition of Venetian paintings and incunabula, Glory of Venice: Renaissance Paintings 1470–1520 (co- curated with David Steel, 2017), and most recently, a series of exhibitions dedicated to the history and development of the NCMA. In 2015, her book on the manuscript patronage of Venetian confraternities and guilds was published by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. Dr. Humphrey earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
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Minimum suggested donation: $28
This talk is free for Friends of Paola's Studiolo!
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