Exhibition: Pomp and Power
Date: Friday February 5, 2010 - Sunday August 22, 2010
Time: M-Sa 10:00a-5:00p, Su 12:00p-5:00p
Location: National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Pomp and Power: Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella's Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua
Pomp and Power features a series of 25 engravings by French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella (1641-1676) entitled The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua. Modeled after a 16th century stucco frieze in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Italy, by Renaissance artists Giulio Romano and Francesco Primaticcio, Antoinette's prints were commissioned by Louis XIV's minister of finance in 1675. This commission was part of a large-scale effort by the French government to emulate Classical Greek and Roman sculpture in French national art.
Antoinette's Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua employs the grand pictorial language of ancient Rome to depict the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismond's visit to Mantua in 1433. Masterfully executed, her engravings illustrate the power of a narrative borrowed from antiquity, employed in 16th century Italy, and sought after by the 17th century French court.
$10 general, $8 students/visitors 65 and over, free for NMWA members and youth 18 and under.
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