Sunday,
February 03, 2008
Getty Gets Bernini Exhibit
as Reward for Return of Looted Italian Antiquities
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
Getty recently agreed to return 40 of 52 artworks that
Besides
showing off some of
A
major exhibit of the sculptor
The
By
Howard Blume
Staff Writer
February 2, 2008
The J. Paul Getty Museum is preparing for perhaps the most complete exhibit
of Bernini busts ever displayed outside
The exhibit at one time was at risk, but a recent settlement between
Among the gems is a bust of Costanza Bonarelli, the beautiful wife of one of Bernini
The famed sculpture, which dates from about 1637, is housed in the collection
of the
The Bernini exhibit symbolizes the change of tone in dealings between the
museum and
After more than a year of ne gotiations,
the Getty agreed to return 40 of 52 artworks that
The museum says the exhibit shows the development of the portrait bust as
"an innovative and groundbreaking art form which forever changed sculptural
portraiture."
Planning for the Bernini exhibit was already underway during the dispute over
antiquities.
At the time,
Besides showing off some of
"The Getty and the institutions in
"The relationship that now exists is very solid," Hartwig
said.
The Bernini exhibit will open Aug. 5 and run through Oct. 26.
howard.blume@latimes.com
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