Artist: Lorenzo Costa (1460 - 1535)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Renaissance
Media: Painting,Drawing
Influences:

Biography:
Lorenzo Costa was influenced early on by the painters, Cosimo Tura and Ercole de’Roberti and may have studied with either of them. He settled in Bologna in 1483 and painted frescoes for local chapels and canvas pieces. Costa created the altarpiece for Bologna’s San Petronio church in 1492 titled Madonna and Child with Saints. He then received several commissions from the Gonzaga family before moving to Mantua in 1507 to succeed Andrea Mantegna as their court painter. Costa lived there until his death in 1535.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Museum of Fine Arts -
Lorenzo Costa, Italian (Ferrarese), about 1460-1535 Portrait of a Woman with a Pearl Necklace Oil
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: attributed to Lorenzo Costa Title: Portrait of a Cardinal in his Study Date: about
J. Paul Getty Museum -
A Thebaid: Monks and Hermits in a Landscape
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Lorenzo Costa - A Concert c. 1485-1495 oil on poplar The National Gallery, London Italian
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Lorenzo Costa - Portrait of a Lady c. 1490 oil on canvas transf Currier Museum of Art Italian
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Lorenzo Costa - Portrait of Battista Fiera c. 1507-1508 oil on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Lorenzo Costa - The Virgin and Child with Saints 1505 oil on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Lorenzo Costa - The Adoration of the Shepherds with Angels c. 1499 oil on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Lorenzo Costa - The Story of Moses (The Dance of Miriam) after 1508 glue on linen The National Gallery, London Italian
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Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes - Dona Amalia Bonells de Costa c. 1805 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Spanish
Museum of Fine Arts -
Lorenzo Costa il Giovane, Italian (Mantua), about 1537-1583 Munificence, Study for lunette in Camera della
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Lorenzo Costa - The Story of Moses (The Israelites gathering Manna) after 1508 glue on linen The National Gallery, London Italian
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Frog Pendant, 11th–16th century; Chiriquí Costa Rica, Puntarenas ProvinceCast gold; H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5
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Lorenzo Costa - The Virgin and Child Enthroned between a Soldier Saint and Saint John the Baptist c. 1499 oil and egg tempera The National Gallery, London Italian
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John Stanton Judge Lorenzo P. Latimer black Ink on paper 1882
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Madonna Adoring the Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and an Angel Lorenzo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)Oil
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Madonna and Child
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Pietro Perugino - Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi 1488 oil on panel transfe National Gallery of Art Italian
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Young Woman Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d"Andrea d"Oderigo) (Italian, Florentine, 1459-60–1537)Oil on
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Magda Santonastasio Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) book with six color etchings and poems by the artist 1987
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Magda Santonastasio Black nightä, plate 1 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio The coral necklaceä, plate 4 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio Spool of tendernessä, plate 5 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio Boiling of the oceanä, plate 6 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Ambrogio Brambilla A Consistory Showing the Interior of the Sistine Chapel, after the engraving by Lorenzo Vaccari Etching 1582
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Giovanni Francesco Costa Veduta verso il Taglio (View beside the Taglio), from the series Delle delizie del fiume Brenta (Some delights of the Brenta river) Etching 1750
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Magda Santonastasio The ring-dove fliesä, plate 2 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Lorenzo Lotto Bust of a Bearded Man oil on canvas 1541
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Lorenzo Palmer Latimer Landscape oil on canvas 1882
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Nativity, 1409 Lorenzo Monaco (Italian [Florence], ca. 1370-1423)Tempera on panel; 8 3/8 x 12
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Magda Santonastasio The ring-dove steersä, plate 3 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artistrtist, author (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de la Pl‡ce du Gran Duc engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du DÙme de Florence engraving 1825
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza, 1547 Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, Venetian, born about 1480, died 1556)Oil
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Bertoldo di Giovanni - Lorenzo de' Medici, il Magnifico, 1449-1492, and The Pazzi Conspiracy 1478 bronze National Gallery of Art Italian
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Lorenzo Pasinello St. Anne graphite 17th - 18th century
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Lorenzo Loli Cupid Breaking His Bow Etching 1640
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Lorenzo Lotto Self Portrait oil on canvas 15th - 16th century
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du R. Jardin de Boboli engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de la Metropolitaine de Florence engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de L'Eglise de S. Gaetan engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue des Prisons Publique engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du Palais Strozzi engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du Pont ‡ la Carraia engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du R. PalaÏs Pitti engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de la Porte Romaine engraving 1825
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Giovanni Costa - After a Shower near Pisa late 19th centu oil on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Giovanni Costa - Porto d'Anzio c. 1853 oil on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Lorenzo Palmer Latimer Landscape oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Robert Harshe San Lorenzo etching early 20th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Agostino Scilla, Italian, 1629-1700 Portrait of an Artist (said to be Andrea Sacchi) Oil on
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Lorenzo di Niccolo St. Paul tempera on panel 14th - 15th century
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Lorenzo Bardi Amphiteatre du R. Jardin de Boboli engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du Royal Palais Des Cascines engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue des Palais Corsi, e Viviani engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du Pont de la Sainte TrinitË engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de la Place de St. Marie Nouvelle engraving 1825
Museum of Fine Arts -
Wassili Wassilevitch Weretshchagin, Russian, 1842-1904 Monks at the Door of a Mosque Oil on panel
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Lorenzo Loli The Infant Hercules Etching 17th century
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de l'Eglise, et de la Place de Saint Marc engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de l'Eglise de P.P.Scolopi et du Palais Riccardi engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du Pont, et de L'Eglise de la Sainte Trinite engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de L'Arno Hors de la Porte S. Niccolas engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de la Place, et de l'Eglise de la Sainte Croix engraving 1825
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, 17th century (ca. 1616-17) By Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)Italian
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Lorenzo dei Musi Peace Engraving 16th century
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Lorenzo dei Musi Peace Engraving 16th century
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Lorenzo Quaglio Women at the Window reading Color lithograph 1819
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Lorenzo Lorenzi Giovanbatista nel Deserto engraving 18th - 19th century
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Bicci di Lorenzo Madonna and Child with Angels tempera on panel 14th - 15th century
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue de la Place et de L'Eglise de la Tres=Sainte Annonciation engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi EntrËe dans la Ville de la Porte S. Gallo engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du Caffe- Haus Dans Le Jardin Boboli engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Loli The Christ Child and St. John Etching 17th century
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J.A.J. Wilcox Portrait of Lorenzo D. Latimer engraving 19th century
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Andrea Le Jeune Scacciati Satyrs surprising two nymphs at their bath, after Lorenzo da Bologna, from the series Disegni originali d'eccelenti pittori... Etching in blue ink 18th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Amulet Possibly Moche Panama or Costa Rica, A.D. 500–1000 Gold 6.35 cm (2 1/2 in.)
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Ernest David Roth San Lorenzo, Segovia, Spain Etching 1921
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Lorenzo Quaglio Portrait of Aloys Senefelder Lithograph with tint stone 1818
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Teodoro Viero Veduta del Palazzo del N.H. Lorenzo Tiepolo... 18th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Avian amulet Body adornment Quimbaya Costa Rica, A.D. 500–1000 Gold 12.05 cm (4 3/4 in.)
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Lorenzo B. Chase Three Women, Seated 6th plate daguerreotype 19th century
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Giovanni Costa - Veduta Del Palazzo De'NN: H. H.: Pisani 1750 etching University of California, Berkeley Art Museum Italian
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Madonna and Child with Angels Workshop of Lorenzo Monaco (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood,
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Bicci di Lorenzo St. Anthony and St. Stephen tempera and gold leaf on poplar wood 14th - 15th century
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du Palais Corsini de Loug de L'Arno Prise de la Place Scarlatti engraving 1825
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Lorenzo Bardi Vue du Pont de la Sainte TrinitË Prise du Pont a la Carraia etching and engraving 1825
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
David, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Abraham, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
Museum of Fine Arts -
Giovanni Costa, Italian, 1826-1903 Ruins in the Roman Campagna Oil on panel 21 x 42.9
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Lorenzo Lorenzi Battle Scene, after Salvatore Rosa Etching and engraving 18th century
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Lorenzo Lorenzi Battle Scene, after Salvatore Rosa Etching and engraving 18th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Noah, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Lorenzo Loli The Holy Family, after Giovanni Andrea Sirani Etching 17th century
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Lorenzo Veneziano Madonna Enthroned with Kneeling Dominican Monk tempera on panel 14th - 15th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Nicholas Resuscitating Three Youths, predella panel, 1433-35 Bicci di Lorenzo (Italian, Florentine, 1373-1452)Tempera and
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Bicci di Lorenzo Saint John the Baptist and St. Miniato tempera and gold leaf on poplar wood 14th - 15th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Return from the Hunt, ca. 1505–7 Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo) (Italian, Florentine,
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Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries, predella panel, 1433-35 Bicci di Lorenzo (Italian, Florentine, 1373-1452)Tempera and gold

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Katonah Museum of Art: Pietro Costa: Conflicts & War
Contained within each cylinder is a single possessive noun in neon that emits a pulsating glow of color. Buried within the ground, these words suggest the motivation behind the artwork and its title. A mirror at the bottom of each cylinder reflect...
Galeria Centro: Metaphors: Enriquillo R. Amiama
Amiama was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1962. His work his been exhibited in Santo Domingo, Montreal, Wsahington DC, Panama and Costa Rica, with work in corporate collections in Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guadalupe, Honduras,...
Queens Museum of Art: Investigations, an exhibition of photographs by Costa Picadas
Investigations is a unique compilation of photographs with an unusual origin--their initial function was to assess and document the legitimacy of insurance claims in...
Columbus Museum of Art: No Ordinary Land: Encounters in a Changing Environment Photographs by Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee
In their color pictures the photographers explore how people interact with the landscape in places as diverse as Sri Lanka, Iceland, Costa Rica, and New York City. Approximately 50 photographs, which the photographers refer to as social geographi...
MAC 21: Call for Exhibitiors: International Contemporary Art Fair
Download the Contract of Exhibitor with prices and Rules for participation in MAC21 http://www.mac21.com/PDF/MAC21-I.pdf And we would therefore advise you to send by e-mail or fax your app...
Galeria do Teatro Municipal Baltazar Nunes: Dialogues with Engravings: Angela Costa, Guilhrme Cardoso, Liliana Almeida, Margarida Ransy and Marina dos Santos
Each of the artists exhibiting have their preferences, their tendencies, their obstinacies, their materials of predilection. Each has their own personal quest, search, insistancies and hesitations. Each wants always do the best work possible.
Alamo Spring Art & Fine Craft Festival: CALL FOR ARTISTS
Featuring the most desirable selections of contemporary arts and crafts available in Northern California, the Alamo Spring Art & Fine Craft Festival celebrates the creative spirit in action. The Mother's Day weekend festival has long provided a...
MacKenzie Art Gallery: Ron Noganosh: It Take Time
Born in 1949 in Magnetawan, Ontario, Ron Noganosh is an Ojibway artist who lives and works in Ottawa. Noganosh studied Graphic Design at George Brown College in Toronto, and Fine Arts ...
Gate Foundation: On(e)Line: On One Line
The global and the international are not opposed to the local or the regional, there is no confrontation. It is just that the one cannot exist without the other. It is better to measure these terms with their own values. This will make way for de...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: Squatters 2: Space in Rotterdam and Porto
Runa Islam (UK) emphasizes the local differences in a side by side screening of two films based on the same script but shot in the resp...
San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: Brian Prescott: Photographs from A Bird's Eye View
Prescott has been to five continents to see more than 1,500 species of birds, and he has photographed more than 1,000 of them. He has traveled to the four corners of North America, and into the Yukon and Northwest Territory of Canada. He has visit...
Hang Art: Katherine Valentine: Temperature
Katherine Valentine's figurative paintings flicker on the canvas, saturated with evanescent light, subtle movement, and palpable emotion. Her painting process mimics life itself, with its constant negotiation of boundaries, its cycles of dissoluti...
Design Museum, at University of California, Davis: Beyond the Rainbow: Maguey Textiles of Guatemala
Curator Kathy Rousso will hold a free hands-on workshop on Saturday July 23 from 9 am to 5 pm. She will be demonstrating how to create small net bags using similar techniques to those displayed in the exhibition. All ages are welcomed. Please call...
Air Gallery: Drawing on Uncertainty: Works by Jac Saorsa
Drawing is considered by the artist to be at least, and perhaps more communicative in terms of meaning as conventional language. I think that at root, the difference between verbal and visual literacy is that the latter requires visual ac...
g-module: Maureen McQuillan: Mesmerizing Force
McQuillan’s drawings consist of wave-like strands of impossibly thin and vibrating lines, suggesting linear mappings, topologic forms or scientific monitoring. In this current series, she gives yet another dimension to her low-tech process, which ...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: El real viaje Real / The Real Royal Trip
The contemporary artists in the exhibition are from Columbuss embarkation point, Spain, and the lands he explored, including Cuba, Costa Rica, and Brazil.  El real viaje Real / The Real Royal Trip, which is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, is...
Hudson River Museum: The Magic of Light: Artists Focusing on Non-Traditional Media
The Magic of Light displays the work of both established and emerging American artists. James Turrell, part of the Light-and-Space movement of the 1960s and 1970s along with Robert Irwin, works with pure light, while his main goal is the viewer...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: [based upon] TRUE STORIES
Participating filmmakers and artists: Chantal Akerman, Edgar Arceneaux, Pedro Costa, Maurício Dias & Walter Riedweg, Omer Fast, Peter Friedl, Mark Lewis, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ella Raidel & René Straub, Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Gianikian, Alejand...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Sculpture by Manuel Sola / 20th Century Avantgarde
Their strong verticality recall the totems and ceremonial figures of African and Oceanic cutlures, and like them, give material sense to a spiritual world shared by all humanity. They are prayers to a world that is unravelling, presented with humi...
Arte Communications, Venice Council's Office for Culture and Entertainment, Lido-Malamocco-Alberoni District Council: OPEN'99 2nd International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations
The participating artists have been selected by a committee of international critics presided over by the French art critic, Mr. Pierre Restany. The artists come from 20 different countries: China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ja...
Teylers Museum: ARTISTS IN THE ZOO: Drawings, paintings, sculptures of animals in ‘Artis’
Artis was founded in 1838, and ranks after those in London and Dublin as the third oldest zoo in Europe. From the very beginning, the Amsterdam zoological garden was an enormous stimulus for artists. Lured by a hitherto unparalleled variety of exo...
Jack Rutberg Fine Art: Francisco Zuniga: Rare Paintings on Canvas and A Survey of Original Graphics
This museum quality exhibition is accompanied by the new publication of "Francisco Zuniga, Catalogue Raisonne: Volume II, Oil Paintings & Original Prints, 1927-1986." This beautifully printed and definitive hardcover book contains 375 illustratio...
Karpio Facchini Gallery: Reality: Francis Acea, Solo Show
A well known work for this period is "taxi-limosina" (1998), a stretched 10 meters long car, made out of three Lada cars welded together, or "Antennas: network transmission" (1998), a hundred and forty four antennas installed upside down. Aft...
Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Carlos Scliar: Painting from 1948 to 1983
Carlos Scliar was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, in 1921. He gave the first individual show of his paintings in 1940 in São Paulo. His participation in the war from 1944 as a member of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy (where h...
Oakland Museum of California: After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental Photography
The exhibition places Walkers work in the context of the history of photography in the environmental movement, demonstrating its relationship to the work of such artist/activists as Ansel Adams, Phillip Hyde, Eliot Porter, the Mono Lake Committee ...
Carengie Museum of Natural History: The Art of Nature Photography Symposium
The speakers are: Anthony E. Cook. Cook is a naturalist, artist and author of The Cook Forest, An Island in Time. He has attained international recognition in the wo...
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: NO ORDINARY LAND: ENCOUNTERS IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Beahan and McPhee share a unique eye for the paradoxes inherent in the social landscape. In Italy, a hillside of prehistoric cave dwellings is being converted to modern apartments; in Hawaii, a garden of mangos and oranges are protected against i...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Estiu 2001, Two Exhibitions: Lluis Vila and Copper, Ink, Paper and Pressure
Born and raised in the province of Girona, Lluís Vilà is a native upon whom the Ampurdanese landscape has left but little impact. His paintings on paper reflect a personal vision imbued with a private language that generates the amorphous shapes h...
Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art: The Happy Face of Globalization
In an homage to the twentieth-century avantgarde tradition, some of the prime examples of which found an outlet in Albisola, the exhibition presents, along with the works of the invited artists, a selection of works in ceramics produced by ...
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art: Recycled Revisited: Artistic Responses to the Earth Charter
The twelve artists selected by Mr. Dahlsen and Dr. Wexler in this exhibition, weave together environmental, social, and political concerns, to which all must be attended for a sustainable future. By employing a variety of media that range from ...

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