The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM), in collaboration with the Yale University Art Gallery, is putting on the Religion, Ritual, and Performance in the Renaissance exhibit. AMAM is the only museum chosen for this honor which is not in Yale's immediate New England region. It will feature more than 80 works, sacred and secular, spanning the late 13th to early 17th centuries, from both Northern and Southern Europe.
The exhibition presents works used in private devotion, public worship, religious processions, and other rites and rituals, such as marriages, alongside those of a more secular nature, including portraits and chests, which nevertheless perform functions related to self-fashioning and display. Among the many exceptional artworks in the exhibition are two portable altarpieces that would have been used in private devotion: one, a painted triptych (the earliest work on view, from ca. 1280-90), is discreet and intimate, while the other, a lapis lazuli- and coral-encrusted altarpiece complete with its case (one of the latest works in the exhibition, from 1608), is a masterpiece of craftsmanship.
This exhibition also allows AMAM to supplement its rich Renaissance collection with superb paintings from Yale by Taddeo and Agnolo Gaddi, Sano di Pietro, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Lucas van Leyden, and Jacopo Tintoretto, among many other artists, as well as with impressive sculptures from France, Germany, and Italy.
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