Nasher Museum of Art, on the Duke University campus in North Carolina, recently unveiled a new exhibit called “El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III.” The exhibition includes 52 paintings, portraits, carved and painted sculptures of saints, pieces of period glass and ceramics, and more. Of the paintings, there are seven works by El Greco, three works by Velázquez, and works by their contemporaries.
Co-curators Sarah Schroth and Ronni Baer, with support from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, found and bargained to bring art inventories of the Duke of Lerma from Spain to the United States. The exhibition is the largest assembly ever in the Southeast of Spanish art loaned internationally.
The exhibition will be on view at the museum from August 21 through November 9, 2008. Read more at http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3402363/.
