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New York Met Museum’s European Masterpieces Visit Down Under New York’s finest treasures, including five centuries of European Masterpieces, are now on display in Queensland, Australia in the most significant exhibition of international art the country has received in recent decades. The traditional masterpieces exhibition features portraits, still-life, and landscapes by Cézanne, Rembrandt, Renoir, Vermeer, van Gogh and others from the Renaissance to twentieth-century post-impressionism direct from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. As the only show The Met is touring in 2021, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) was a feat. ....
Three paintings by Orsola Maddalena Caccia Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The bequest of two striking still-lifes and a religious scene by the artist and nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia is stoking interest in her unusual career. The paintings, among 11 works bestowed by the late hedge-fund executive Errol Rudman, are Fruit and Flowers (around 1630), Flowers in a Grotesque Vase (around 1635) and Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (around 1625). Caccia oversaw a studio in an Ursuline convent in Moncalvo, Italy, founded by her father in part to house his six daughters. Fruit and Flowers attests to Caccia’s imagination: the Met notes that the blooms seem to sprout directly from the stone on which they rest. The still-lifes are on view in the museum’s newly reinstalled European galleries. ....
Orsola Maddalena Caccia, Fruit and Flowers (c. 1630). Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Errol M. Rudman. Thanks to an unexpected bequest, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art now boasts the largest collection of works by the Mannerist painter and nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676) outside the artist’s native Italy. Upon hedge-fund manager Errol M. Rudman’s death last year, he surprised the Met with a gift that included three works by Caccia, whose art is rarely represented in US museum collections or even outside of the convent in Moncalvo, Italy, where she lived and worked. ....