The Saint Louis Art Museum announces opening of Reviving Antiquity: Artists and Their Study of Ancient Rome. Six recent acquisitions to the Museum's collection will be on view in the exhibition, which highlights the interest of 18th- and 19th-century painters and sculptors in the art of ancient Rome.
Recent acquisitions on view include Harriet Hosmer's sculpture Zenobia in Chains, Francois-Andre Vincent's painting Arria and Poetus and four prints of architectural fantasies base on Roman ruins by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
These works of art are on view together with other seldom-seen examples of 18th- and 19th-century art based on antique models. Works in the Museum's collection have been supplemented with loans from a private collection.
Curated by Judith Mann, curator of European art to 1800, Reviving Antiquity will be on view in Gallery 204 through September 27, 2009.
The Museum is also moving forward with the cleaning of an important group of paintings celebrating the antique sights of Italy: Hubert Robert's set of four views of ancient ruins.
The conservation will take place in Gallery 205, where Museum visitors can monitor the progress, read about the restoration process, ask questions of Museum docents, and, on designated afternoons, ask questions of the conservator himself as he works. Look for this installation during the summer of 2009. -- www.stlouis.art.museum
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