Soft Opening Considering the Collection & A Vista on Italy and France and Book Launch

The Paintings Gallery is delighted to present the recently published inventory catalogue of Italian, French, and Spanish painting from the 14th to the 18th century. This publication by Martina Fleischer, long-time custodian of the Paintings Gallery, presents the latest art-historical, technical and collection-historical research findings. Under the motto ‘Considering the Collection’, the highlights – from Bosch to Rubens – will continue to be showcased in the Paintings Gallery and, on the occasion of the new publication, rarely exhibited works from the Italian and French collections will be presented in two rooms. Paintings by Titian, Preti, Tiepolo, Guardi, Lorrain, Subleyras or Robert are on display.

The scholary catalogue of collection holdings Inventory catalogue of Italian, French and Spanish art in the Paintings Gallery, compiled by the long-serving Paintings Gallery custodian Martina Fleischer, covers works from Romanesque schools from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries in around 200 comprehensive texts. The works include panel paintings by Simone da Bologna, Antonio da Fabriano, and Botticelli, Titian’s late work Tarquin and Lucretia, Giambattista Tiepolo’s bozzetto Phaeton and Apollo, and the in total eight views of Venice by Francesco Guardi. Highlights among the French works include the two rare pastoral landsapes by Claude Lorrain and Pierre Subleyras’s “studio picture” painted on both sides, while the Spanish schools include Murillo’s Boys Playing Dice and the sketch in oils for Foundation of the Tritinarian Order by Carreño de Miranda. More than a third of the texts are complemented by hitherto unpublished results of research undertaken by the Institute for Natural Sciences and Technologies in Art at the Academy, including x-radiographs and infrared reflectography.