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The Frick Re-Opens.
New Light (especially) on
Italian Art in the Collection
A conversation with
Giulio Dalvit
Associate Curator, The Frick Collection
While presenting the reorganization of the celebrated house-museum on 70th Street, which re-opens to the public next week (April 17th), this talk will focus in particular on Italian art in the collection. Its new installation within the Frick mansion allows for unexpected juxtapositions and new sightlines, encouraging visitors to look again and look longer.
But how were these pieces chosen, and what histories remain untold? Helen Clay Frick’s detailed travel diaries from Italy offer tantalizing clues, documenting the eye and instinct behind the acquisitions of some of the most celebrated pieces in the collection. It is mostly thanks to her, rather than her father, that the Frick’s collection stands as one of the most exquisite ensembles of Italian art in the U.S.
[Piero della Francesca (ca. 1411/13–1492), Saint John the Evangelist, 1454–69, Oil and tempera with traces of gold on poplar panel; The Frick Collection, New York]