Baldasar Castiglione Rides
Again!With the arrival of one of Raphael's most
beloved portraits comes a special treat. Italian
Renaissance writer and courtier Baldasar
Castiglione will serve as museum tour guide
in a 3d animated resurrection. In a three-year
partnership, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the
Louvre in Paris will feature Baldasar Castiglione
in a new exhibition called Louvre
AtlantaTM. The Louvre will send hundreds
of art works to the High Museum in an exhibition that
will run from October 2006 through 2009. According
to the High's website, the purpose of the partnership
will "trace the history and development of the Louvre
from the 17th century through the present. The three
exhibitions in year one will focus on the genesis of the
royal collection of the pre-Revolutionary Régime—the
works collected by the Kings before the Louvre was
converted from a palace to a museum during the late 18th
century and that make up the heart of the Louvre’s
collections." We wonder if Baldasar Castiglione still has
a way with words. It should be interesting.
Brenda Harness, Art Historian
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