Cleveland Art, 2025, Issue 3
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In This Issue: Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses, Filippino Lippi and Rome, In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth), Expressively American: Printed Silks, 1927–1947, Pintoricchio Magnified: An Immersive Conservation Experience, New Acquisition: Giambologna’s “Fata Morgana,” and 18th-century prints from Suzhou
The Annunciation c. 1580. Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588) and workshop. Oil on canvas; 150 x 133.4 cm. Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1950.251. In Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses | The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall
Welcome to the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance (c. 1350s–1520s), Mannerist (c. 1520s–80s), and early Baroque (c. 1580–1630s) periods have served as dynamic inspiration for Italian fashion from the late 1800s—as the Italian fashion industry remobilized after having been in the shadow of Paris fashion in the previous centur...
Filippino Lippi and Rome
In the mid-16th century, artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari lauded Florentine painter Filippino Lippi (c. 1457–1504) for his exceptional ingenuity, describing him as “a painter of the most beautiful intelligence and the most lovely invention.” The son and pupil of luminary artist Fra Filippo Li...
In Vino Veritas
The origin of wine predates written records. To ancient winemaking cultures, including the Greeks, Romans, Anatolians, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and early Jews and Christians, wine had divine origins. In the Greek Odyssey (c. 700s BCE), Homer describes wine as “descended from the bless’d abodes / A...
Printed American Dress Silks
How does a nation forge a unique design identity? That was the question American silk manufacturers asked themselves after the First World War, when they faced a shortage of materials and creative exchange with Europe. Companies like Stehli Silks Corporation and Onondaga Silk Company began turning t...
Pintoricchio Magnified
A first-of-its-kind immersive conservation experience offers CMA visitors a chance to go beneath the surface of a painting into its complex art historical background and treatment history. Opened in August, Pintoricchio Magnified: An Immersive Conservation Experience provides an unprecedented digita...
Giambologna Joins the Collection
Giambologna’s Fata Morgana is among the most significant additions to the CMA’s collection in decades. A preeminent sculptor, Giambologna (1529–1608) bridged the Renaissance genius of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the Baroque brilliance of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The Fata Morgana is a masterpiece within...
18th-Century Prints from Suzhou
China is known for its invention of woodblock printing in the 700s and as a pioneer in color printing with separate blocks in the early 1600s, a technique that had been developed well before it spread to Japan. Color printing reached its peak around the 1700s, and the finest prints were made in Suzh...