World culture: “Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection” Exhibition in New York

May 21, 2013, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will open “Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection” Exhibition.

In celebration of the recently published catalogue of Robert Lehman's collection of European sculpture and metalwork, this exhibition presents a selection of Italian bronze sculpture of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, displayed as a group for the first time.

Featuring bronze casts after models created by masters such as Severo da Ravenna and Desiderio da Firenze, this selection includes independent figural statuettes as well as functional objects created in key centers of Italian bronze production, in particular Padua and Venice.