A conversation with Bruce Edelstein and Davide Gasparotto curators of the exhibition Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters, currently at The Morgan Library & Museum, where are on display two of the great painter’s masterpieces: the altarpiece of the Visitation, and the Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap.
Bruce Edelstein is Coordinator for Graduate Programs and Advanced Research at NYU, Florence, where he teaches art history and serves in an advisory role for academic planning. He is Affiliated Faculty in the department of Italian Studies at NYU New York. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995.
In 2014, he was named Honorary Member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno di Firenze, while in 2015-16, he was Guest Scholar at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. His publications include: articles on Eleonora di Toledo’s biography, iconography and artistic patronage; studies on sixteenth-century Medici gardens; and essays on works by Medici court painters and sculptors, such as Bronzino, Cellini and Tribolo. He is completing a book on the early history of the Boboli Gardens under the patronage of Eleonora di Toledo.
Davide Gasparotto is Senior Curator and Head of Paintings Department at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. A native of Bassano del Grappa, Italy, Gasparotto studied the History of Art and Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore. He was the Director of the Fondazione Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro from 1996 to 1998. Afterword he spent 12 years as a curator at the National Gallery of Parma and the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici e Storici di Parma e Piacenza. From 2012 to 2014 he was Director of the Galleria Estense in Modena.
In December 2014 he was appointed as Senior Curator of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Davide’s research interests include painting, sculpture and the decorative arts of the Renaissance, the rediscovery of classical antiquity between the Middle-Ages and the eighteenth century, and the history of collecting. He has organized several acclaimed exhibitions.
Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters opened in May 2018 at the Uffizi in Florence, and is currently on display at the Morgan Library in New York before traveling to the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
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