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Louis Dupré, Portrait of M. Fauvel, the French Consul, with View of the Acropolis, 1819, Oil on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Woods, 1980.33. Public domain.
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The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

November 19, 1999 – February 29, 2000

This exhibition, the first to be held in the newly renovated Old Master Gallery and Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery, explored the early modern impulse to find inspiration in the ancient past.

This intimate exhibition presented paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, works on paper and books from fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Europe, drawn from the Museum’s collection and supplemented by loans from important public and private collections.

Catalog

The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe | Published September 2000 via the University of Chicago Press

Catalog available

Curator
Ingrid D. Rowland, University of Chicago Associate Professor of Art History, in consultation with Elizabeth Rodini, Smart Mellon Projects Curator.
Support

This exhibition was made possible by a multi-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Presented in the Art Before 1900 Gallery and the Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery
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