Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

This exhibition will explore the various exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance. The approximately 150 objects, which date from around 1400 to 1600, range from exquisite examples of maiolica and jewelry given as gifts to the couple, to marriage portraits and paintings that extolled sensual love and fecundity, such as the Metropolitan’s Venus and Cupid by the great Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition will also include some of the rarest and most significant pieces of Renaissance glassware, cassone panels, birth trays, and drawings and prints of amorous subjects.

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

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