Texas Tech Museum Hosts Exhibition of Work from World-Renowned Uffizi Museum
Painting the Italian Landscape: views from the Uffizi, Nov. 8 through Jan. 4, 2009
The exhibition features about 40 works from the Uffizi, one of the oldest and most famous museums in the world. The works, ranging from the 1500s to the mid-20th century, illustrate the evolution of landscape painting in Italy from its earliest roots as a background setting in paintings to becoming the focal point of a painting.
The exhibition features the works of Old Italian Masters such as Botticelli, Guercino, Filippo Napoletano, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Canaletto.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Museum of Texas Tech University is located at 4th Street and Indiana Avenue, on the university campus. For more information contact Gary Edson, museum executive director, or David Dean, director of information services, at (806) 742-2442, or e-mail museum.texastech@ttu.edu. Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, until 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. The museum is closed on Monday.
The Museum of Texas Tech University features multi-faceted collections including the works of N.C. Wyeth and his contemporaries, dinosaurs, historical and cultural artifacts, Pre-Columbian art and paintings by major Taos and Southwestern artists including Georgia O’Keeffe and Peter Hurd.
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“Picnic on the Grass,” oil on canvas, 1619, by Filippo Napoletano | Click for a High-Res, Print Quality Image