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In Martin van Meytens the Younger ( 1695–1770) the Belvedere is presenting a pre- eminent European master of the Baroque age. As the preferred portraitist at Maria Theresa’s imperial court, Meytens impressively captured influential personalities of his period’s intellectual, artistic, and political spheres.  “It is a great joy for me personally that the first monographic show on Martin van Meytens is taking place in Vienna – the city where the artist, following extensive stays in a number of other countries, spent more than half of his life and where he left behind impressive traces ,” says the Belvedere’s director Agnes Husslein-Arco. Like no other artist, Martin van Meytens the Younger succeeded in documenting the protagonists of the legendary age of Maria Theresa in his portraits. “The precisely painted facial features, the detailed rendering of elaborate garments, and the unmistakable clues to the sitters’ social standing and profession still convey a lively impression of this per

The Art Institute of Chicago presents more than 80 masterpieces of Italian draftsmanship selected from the collection of Chicagoans Jean and Steven Goldman in the exhibition Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection, on view Saturday, November 1, 2014, through Sunday, February 1, 2015. Francesco de Rossi, il Salviati.  The Head of a Female Warrior,  n.d. Jean and Steven Goldman Collection  Focusing on the periods of Mannerism and the early Baroque, the exhibition includes nearly 60 drawings never before seen in public. Recent acquisitions of works, ranging from a figure study by Baccio Bandinelli to a composition drawing by Salvator Rosa, are shown with two dozen significant drawings from the Goldmans’ existing collection, including masterpieces by Pietro da Cortona, the Carracci, and Francesco Salviati.  The exhibition features many of the Goldmans’ promised gifts to the Art Institute alongside about 20 related works from the museum’s Prints and Drawings Collecti

This exhibition, which featured some 50 works by Roberts, was the first significant show devoted to the artist and the largest ever gathering of his works.  Landscape with Waterfall and Rustic Bridge It coincided with the publication of the most comprehensive study on the artist in over 30 years,   'Thomas Roberts: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Ireland' , written by William Laffan and Brendan Rooney, who have also curated the National Gallery exhibition.    Thomas Roberts : Ideal Landscape ; ca. 1770; National Gallery of Ireland . There has not been an in-depth presentation of Roberts's work since the National Gallery's exhibition in 1978 when just 16 works by the artist were on display. Since then, important paintings by Roberts have come to light and now have an opportunity to be admired in full  splendor . Out of the 64 autograph works assembled for the book, 47 were included in the exhibition, all of which belong to a career that lasted just a decade

The Art Institute of Chicago  presented  Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light ,    130 works that reveal Homer’s astounding mastery of watercolor, exploring how he unlocked the secrets of the medium over a period of more than three decades.   Offering the most comprehensive exhibition of Homer’s watercolors in decades, Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light was organized by and mounted exclusively at the Art Institute. The exhibition was view February 16–May 10, 2008. After the Hurricane, Bahamas, 1899 The Watcher, Tynemouth “A much richer picture of Winslow Homer as a practicing artist emerges from this exhibition,” said Martha Tedeschi, curator of prints and drawings at the Art Institute and the exhibition’s curator. “ Homer’s watercolors have often been characterized as free, spontaneous images captured outdoors during fishing trips or in moments of leisure. Indeed many of them do have that feeling—which is exhilarating. But what we found as we investiga

Picasso Through the Eyes of a Connoisseur is  a collection of over 125 etchings, linoleum cuts, paintings, sculptures, lithographs and ceramics by one of the most influential artists of the 20 th century. The offerings begin with a single owner sale of Prints on 3 November 2014 that presents a comprehensive view of Pablo Picasso’s entire career – from 1923 Le Collier to works from the 1970s – with estimates ranging from a few thousand to $600,000.  Led by a number of Picasso’s most celebrated works, including  Portrait de Femme au Chapeau a Pompons et au Corsage Imprime from 1962 (est. $400/600,000)  and Portrait de Jeune Fille d'après Cranach le Jeune, II (est. $400/600,000) from 1958,  the breadth of the collection illustrates the artist’s wide ranging iconography. Paintings and drawings by Picasso will also be included in the 4 & 5 November Impressionist and Modern Art Evening and Day sales. Throughout his career, Picasso mastered various artistic mediums inclu

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541–1614), a special collaboration will bring together all of the artist’s paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, the finest outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and six loans from the Hispanic Society of America, November 4, 2014–February 1, 2015. During the same period, New York’s Frick Collection, whose works by this artist cannot be lent, will exhibit its three El Greco pictures together for the first time. El Greco at The Frick Collection, on view November 4, 2014, through February 1, 2015, will unite its three remarkable El Greco paintings—Purification of the Temple and the portraits of Vincenzo Anastagi and St. Jerome—showing them together, for the first time, on one wall of the museum’s East Gallery. Works on View at The Frick Collection: Saint Jerome (1905.1.67) Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi (1913.1.68) Purification of the Temple (1909.1.66) On view at the Metropolita