On view until August 22, 2021, Romantic Bronzes showcases significantly more than 30 pieces of art. The event illustrates the distinctive features and ways of bronze casting, exploring the historic duration and stylistic approach that make the sculptor’s works a single element of VMFA’s collection that is european

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced this week plans to feature the bronze sculptures of 19th-century French musician Antoine-Louis Barye. On view until August 22, 2021, Romantic Bronzes showcases more than 30 pieces of art. The exhibition illustrates the distinctive features and methods of bronze casting, checking out the historic period and stylistic approach which make the sculptor’s works a single section of VMFA’s collection that is european.

“Over days gone by twenty years, Patti St.Clair [Mrs. Nelson L. St.Clair, Jr.] has donated a collection that is outstanding of casts to VMFA,” stated Alex Nyerges, VMFA’s Director and CEO. “We are very fortunate to now have among the premier collections of the artist’s work that is finest because of both the generosity of Mrs. St.Clair therefore the connoisseurship she has demonstrated in very carefully ch sing each one of these sculptures.”

The event, organized by Dr. Sylvain Cordier, Paul Mellon Curator and Head for the Department of European Art, is an invite to learn about the motivations that are various practices active in the art of bronze casting into the chronilogical age of Romanticism.

Starting in the 1820s, numerous artists began producing works that defied the rigid figurative conventions of France’s Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Tired of the traditional principles and influences from ancient Greek and Roman art that the Neoclassical sch l had perpetuated to the stage of exhaustion, these musicians devised figurative method for expressing more directly emotional and subjective ways to their material. Continue reading →