Travels with a Curator: Santa Maria delle Carceri, Prato
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2020
- In this episode of "Travels with a Curator," Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, brings us to the church of Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato, Italy, to explore the original home of one of the Frick’s spectacular bronzes, “St. John Baptizing” by Francesco da Sangallo. Discover the family connections that link this important sculpture to the church and retrace the history of the bronze from its creation in the sixteenth century to its acquisition by Henry Clay Frick in 1916.
To see this bronze in detail, please visit our website: collections.frick.org/objects...
Mr. Salomon, I have no idea how you are not the longest running jeopardy champion!!! From art to literature to history to nature to religion and then you tie it all together so beautifully! You are a great ambassador for the Frick. thanks so much for doing these!
Mr. Salomon, I have lived all my life in NYC and have never visited the Frick. I have been a member of the Met Museum since 1992 and visit it often. Since I have been isolating I have found and watched so many of your videos about your collection that as soon as the museum re-opens I will be there for the first time and I am so looking forward to that. You are an excellent ambassador for the museum and I will add that I now enjoy a cocktail with you on Fridays. Thank you so much for your knowledge.
eddie_d So true. I have been to the Frick many times, but Xavier Salomon has helped me through this horrible ordeal and enhanced my knowledge. I cannot wait until the Frick reopens.
You will love the Museum!
it is such a jewel. I learned about from my art history teacher. so glad we have gone every time we have been in NYC.
It’s not just the depth of his learning, it’s the ease with which he delivers it to his listener. What he says, you hear.
Another exquisite 20 minutes with insightful details and context. Thank you Xavier and The Frick Collection!
Since you started the “Cocktails with the Curator,” and “Travels with a Curator,” it has become the bright spot in my week. My friends and family are all art admirers, scattered in NYC and CT and even LA who love connecting in NYC and visiting the museums and galleries. My college roommate sent us the link for the first "Cocktails," and we have spread the word. She contacted our local liquor store for the ingredients for the Szarlotka cocktail, and they now obtain the ingredients each week in expectation of our individual orders. Every Friday night we make our cocktails and compare them over text as we prepare to be astonished by the erudition of the curators, Dr. Salomon and Dr. Ng While we miss the sense of scale, the application of the paint, the light, and the gorgeous Frick galleries, (just some of the reasons why visiting the actual works is such a thrill for all of us), we love how this digital format is enhancing our admiration for the Frick and all it has to offer. Indeed, it is only whetting our appetites for the day that we can return to the Frick to examine these works with fresh eyes and renewed appreciation based upon the curators’ learned observations. Well Done Frick! Keep them coming.
Excellent presentation.
A wonderful cultural trip.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Thanks for showing this ancient church with the sculpture on the baptising basin.
Grazie mille !!!
Thank you so very much for these armchair travels! I'm simultaneously in awe and in love with your expertise. The entwining of historical information together the objects, (both placing them in time and place) provides access I've long desired.
Sempre fantastico Xavier, grazie.Sono stata a Prato , hai descritto magicamente tutto ciò che ho visto.Bravo!!!
Thank you so much for all these Travels with a Curator. This one was lovely as it is almost 20 years since my husband and I took a detour one sunny day to Prato. What a lovely surprise the city was! We didn't visit this church so it was very interesting to hear about it and the connection to The Frick. Thank you.
You are in your element here ,bravo!
Mr Solomon - my husband and I have been enjoying listening to you here in the UK every lunchtime since the Lockdown started. You have brought back wonderful memories of your Institution, Mr Frick’s mansion and his collection. Thank you, Marion and David Cole
As a Member of the Mets for many decades, but only in Frick once. From your series just realized that I really missed a lot of wonderful collections across the street! Thank you for your insights and info! Looking forward to visiting Frick again! ❤️🤔🐦
It's wonderful to actually take some time to learn about sculptures, particularly the smaller but no less great ones like this Sangallo. I confess I do tend to just wander by smaller sculptures at museums, but I also do realise how much I miss when I do that... I guess I make up for that by watching beautiful informational videos like this one made by a true expert and lover of the sculpture and its history. What a pleasure.
BRILLIANT
Fifty years ago I drove through Prato, and the clickety-clack sound coming from the buildings was the noise of the family owned looms, making lengths of very expensive cloth for the Milanese clothing industry. I hope they are still there. The small towns of Tuscany are fascinating. Many thanks.
Congratulations to Xavier Salomon whose culture, talents and knowledge bring to all of us unforgettable moments. Yann Kerlau
Fascinating. What research went into this marvelous presentation! I dream that I was able to morph myself miraculously back to Renaissance Italy before church were stripped of masterpieces such as paintings, sculptures and architectural elements. What richness and delight that would be!
thank you, learned a lot
What a lovely presentation of an obscure church and the wonderful sculptor who made the statue of St John the Baptist, now in the Frick collection. Made interesting by the details and the stories surrounding the town of Prato and its church
very, very informative. thanks for informing us.
Mr. S. I would be so happy if you took up Andrea Landino's cardinals playing with their pets. Ecclesiastical worldliness but such sweet smiles. Thanks much. Edward
Wonderful!! Traveling with you is a delightful experience. Thanks again and again for sharing your time and amazing knowledge with us
What a wonderful experience travel with Xavier every week.. grazie per aver parlato di una città poco conosciuta ma interessante come Prato. Saluti e alla prossima!
Thank you for introducing The Frick! I've been to the Louvre ..the Met and the VMFA...it's been great to learn more about the "masters in art"...looking forward to the British Museum and the V&A...
Hmmm...I wonder if we will see an Annual Tour of Art in Europe led by Mr. Salomon? Seems to me that it would be a wonderful way to see great works of art and some "places in-between".
Great idea! Sign me up!!
Thank you for this valuable piece of history and a focus destination for future travel. 🇨🇦
Mr Solomon, following your suggestion i have purchased Marchesa Origo’s book : The Merchant of Prato and have listened again to your lecture on Santa Maria Delle Carceri.....how I enjoy your lectures..... thank you!
I had never heard the word “stoup” before. I referred to such structures as “fonts.” Thanks again for a wonderful talk.
I've learnt more about 🔩 through these #stayathometotravelagain2021
molto buono
Justice claims for the original bronze be in the church and the copy in the museum.
Italians seem to have a habit of starting but not finishing churches as this one in Prato demonstrates with its rough brick facade; there are similar ones in Montepulciano and one huge duomo in Bologna with unfinished front.Even,Santa Croce Florence,the Westminster Abbey of Italy,had unfinished facade until relatively recently and some say it would have been better if it had been left unfinished as the garish marble facade it now has is quite inappropriate.Perhaps these unfinished churches are better off unfinished after all.
why did churches sell off so many of their treasures?
Because they were ambitious or poor and very ignorant.
Santa Maria Carceri was not known until yet from as many others it must bee beautiful.Otherwise I visited Florence Pisa for short time .I beleve also miracles as happened a few times with mee like I keep in my flat also holy water in a little bottle brought home the ather day from the jezuit church nearby and healed not only leg happened an accident before christmas.But returning back to Italy I passed by Neapels chathedral the reliquie the blood Jezus turning every jear must bee also tru doesnt it? This church shown by you is not so precious but the soul the architect is in it.Bronz material is sometime for artist also available as I have from Verona a Statue of Justice .Marble would have been of course a dream like my younger brothers Thomas goldsmid died unfourtanetly in1985.I hope with my remarks I dont truble you Mr.Xaver like the church in Munich
Amazing its good also check our videos
A ja bym wolal zebyrozne takie Salomony sprawowaly kuratele nad zabytkami Izraela a nie Italii bo pozniej okaze sie ze czesc z nich w cudowny sposob przenioslo sie do USA albo Izraela.
I enjoy Travels with a Curator very much. The one criticism I have, however, is that in describing so many of the Christian art objects, no mention is made of the apocryphal nature of the stories connected to them. A belt worn by the Virgin Mary? Sure. I’d rather it be called a so-called belt said to be once worn by . . . Or it is “said by Christians to be a piece of the Crown of Thorns.” It isn’t very scholarly to present such stories as the truth, instead of just part of the mythology of the Christian religion.
christina hill - oh for god’s sake, give us a break with how post-Enlightenment you are! Or must I say, for the “alleged” God’s “whom-some-people-think-might-exist” sake?