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Renaissance Painting from Kress Study Collection On Loan to Norman Rockwell Museum

Posted by on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, News, VRC.

diBicci_packedA 600-year-old painting of the Madonna and Child by the Florentine artist Lorenzo di Bicci (active 1370-1427) and part of the Fine Arts Gallery’s Samuel H. Kress Collection, is currently enroute to the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, for inclusion in an exhibition entitled Keepers of the Flame: Parrish, Wyeth, Rockwell and the Narrative Tradition.

Opening on June 9, the exhibit will shed light on the unbreakable thread connecting American illustration and legendary artists Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell to the roots of European painting through the long line of teachers, who have, through the centuries, passed along the wisdom, knowledge, and techniques of the ages to the next generation of creators.

Curated by Dennis Nolan, an award-winning illustrator and professor of art at Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, the exhibition featuring more than 85 works by American and European masters spans five hundred years, tracing the student to teacher lineage of three Golden Age illustrators to their artistic ancestors in the Italian Renaissance.

Lorenzo di Bicci’s painting will be on view in the Keepers of the Flame exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum until it closes on October 28.

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