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oil painting of seated woman with hair pinned up
Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum
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The Frick presented three Manet canvases from the collection of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.
bronze statue of young man bearing shield and club
Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence
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The Frick Collection presented the first-ever exhibition on the Florentine sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni (ca. 1440–1491), a renowned student of Donatello, a teacher of Michelangelo, and a great favorite of Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici, his principal patron.

photo of white sculpture piece in front of oil painting of standing young woman in the Frick Collection gallery
Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection
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The Frick Collection presented a temporary installation of the work of sculptor Edmund de Waal — a rich juxtaposition of site-specific objects displayed in the main galleries of the museum, alongside works from the permanent collection.
sketched portrait of a woman in a crouched position
Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection
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The Frick Collection was pleased to announce a promised gift of forty-two works on paper by James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), from the collection of Gertrude Kosovsky.
oil painting of Perseus and Andromeda riding Pegasus through the sky
Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
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The Frick Collection presented a selection of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs related to Giambattista Tiepolo’s first significant project outside of Venice, a series of ceiling frescoes for Palazzo Archinto in Milan that were destroyed during World War II.

standing man dressed in pink formal wear, with sword at his side
Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture
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Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture was the first major exhibition in the United States to focus on the portraiture of Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520/24–1579/80), an essential figure in the northern Italian tradition of naturalistic painting. The Frick presented about twenty of th

alabaster and glazed bronze sculpture of standing woman, with headdress of vines
Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome
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Of the many artists who flourished in Rome during the eighteenth century, the silversmith Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) was particularly admired by popes, royalty, and aristocrats across Europe. Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome, curated by Alvar González-Palacios, brought togethe

plate decorated in blue, gold and white, with two cherubs at center
Masterpieces of French Faience: Selections from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection
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The exhibition in the Portico Gallery presented a promised gift to The Frick Collection: seventy-five objects from the collection of Sidney R. Knafel — the finest collection of French faience in private hands — to tell the fascinating and complex history of this particular art form.

Oil painting of Virgin holding Christ child in between two standing and one kneeling figure
The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos
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For the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history, two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos were reunited. These works, The Frick Collection’s Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St.

white statue of George Washington
Canova's George Washington
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Canova’s George Washington examined the history of acclaimed sculptor Antonio Canova's lost masterpiece, a full-length statue of George Washington depicted in ancient Roman garb, drafting his farewell address to the states.