Giulio Dalvit

At left a painting detail of two male figures. At right a female face in anguish in bronze.
Middle Ground: Goya and Tacca, The Poetics of Metalwork
Giulio Dalvit, Assistant Curator of Sculpture, explores connections between Francisco de Goya’s painting The Forge and Pietro Tacca’s bronze statue Nessus and Deianira, made centuries apart and today found in adjacent galleries at Frick Madison. The statue is a remarkable achievement of the same type of labor depicted in Goya’s canvas, both employing metalwork as a powerful storytelling device.
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Unboxing Diana

A single figure has witnessed all the phases of the Frick’s renovation over the last four years: Diana the Huntress, a life-size terracotta by Jean-Antoine Houdon. Due to the sculpture’s fragility, Diana remained in the museum’s Portico Gallery, safely crated throughout the project. To mark her recent unboxing, Giulio Dalvit, Associate Curator, explores the history and technical feats of Houdon’s daringly balanced statue.

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Curators Reflect: Delacroix’s “North African Man and Woman with Baskets of Vegetables and Fruit”

“For me, this is a drawing about the desire to know more and the frustration of knowing too little.” Giulio Dalvit, Assistant Curator of Sculpture, investigates an enigmatic pastel created by Eugène Delacroix. He reveals how the scene poses more questions than it answers—first and foremost, who are this man and woman, and where are we? Learn more about all the works on view in The Eveillard Gift, through February 26, 2023.

video still of Xavier F. Salomon, Aimee Ng, and Giulio Dalvit sitting with glasses among bookcases
Cocktails with a Curator: From Series to Publication

You asked and we listened! Based on The Frick Collection’s acclaimed video series of the same name, the Cocktails with a Curator book is now available. Here, watch as curators Xavier F. Salomon, Aimee Ng, and Giulio Dalvit reflect on the unexpected popularity of the series and their excitement to share engaging histories of Frick artworks, paired with themed drinks, with readers around the world. Cheers!

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Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres

Giulio Dalvit, Assistant Curator of Sculpture, speaks with contemporary artist Giuseppe Penone about his exhibition at Frick Madison, Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres. Penone discusses the eleven never-before-shown works on display, his relationship to porcelain, and his interest in nature and the spirituality of materials.

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video still of oil painting of main with long white beard in reddish purple robe, with hands on an open book
Where in the World? Cochineal
Assistant Curator of Sculpture Giulio Dalvit joins Curator Aimee Ng to investigate the history of the vibrant red pigment in El Greco’s sixteenth-century painting of Saint Jerome. The pigment is derived from crushed cochineal insects, sourced from the Central and South American colonies then under the control of El Greco’s adopted Spain.
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Cocktails with a Curator: Verrocchio’s 'Bust of a Woman'

In the second-to-last episode of Cocktails with a Curator, join Assistant Curator of Sculpture Giulio Dalvit for a discussion of Andrea del Verrocchio’s Bust of a Woman, one of three marble sculptures welcoming visitors on the third floor of Frick Madison. This bust of an unknown sitter showcases Verrocchio’s command of the medium, from the sitter’s look of surprise and the subtle movement of her sleeves to the intricately carved clasp of her garment and the tight curls in her hair.

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Cocktails with a Curator: Leoni’s Medal of Andrea Doria

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, Assistant Curator of Sculpture Giulio Dalvit discusses the history behind a 16th-century medal by Leone Leoni depicting the Genoese admiral Andrea Doria. Currently on view on the third floor of Frick Madison, this maritime-themed medal was cast by the artist as a token of gratitude to its subject, who singlehandedly freed Leone after the artist was sentenced to a galley in the admiral’s fleet.

video still of Giulio Dalvit and sculpture relief of The Resurrection
Cocktails with a Curator: Vecchietta’s “Resurrection”

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, examine Vecchietta’s bronze relief The Resurrection,—the only signed work by the artist outside of Italy—with Assistant Curator of Sculpture Giulio Dalvit. Vecchietta’s depiction of this miracle defies the laws of perspective, with Christ rendered in such high relief that he seems to be emerging from the composition as he comes back to life—an astonishing confluence of making and meaning.

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Cocktails with a Curator: Chinard's "Étienne Vincent de Margnolas"

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, Assistant Curator Giulio Dalvit discusses the life of sculptor Joseph Chinard, whose terracotta Portrait of Étienne Vincent de Margnolas was acquired for the Frick’s collection in 2004 and is now on view on the fourth floor of Frick Madison. Chinard led a very tumultuous early life, jailed for two months in Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo after running afoul of the papacy with his revolutionary ideas and later banished from the Papal States.