Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art
November 14, 2020 – November 28, 2021
This exhibition is part of a continued collaboration between the Georgia Museum of Art and Bob Jones University Museum& Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina.
The exhibition provides visitors with the opportunity to see works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others. Viewers will be immersed in a selection of paintings that up- hold the tenants of Catholic Counter-Reformation Art illustra- tive of the struggle between the Catholic church and the rise of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, which dominated the art scene in 17th-century Spain. Curators: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, and Julia Kilgore, Pierre Daura Curatorial Research Assistant Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, “The Martyrdom of St. Andrew,” ca. after 1682. Oil on canvas. José Antolínez, “St. Michael the Archangel Overcoming Satan,” ca. 1655 – 75. Oil on canvas. Both collection of Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery.
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