Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece: The Tornabuoni-Albizzi Panels
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Pietro del Donzello, The Departure of the
Argonauts, 1487, The Mari-Cha Collection |
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Bartolomeo di Giovanni,The Argonauts in Colchis,
1487, The Mari-Cha Collection
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For the next two years, the Frick will be home to a pair of superb late fifteenth-century Florentine panel paintings, on loan from The Mari-Cha Collection. The panels, which depict scenes from the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, were recently shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Art and Love in Renaissance Italy.
These brilliantly colored narratives offer a fresh perspective on many of the Frick's Renaissance masterworks, including Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert and Piero della Francesca's luminous St. John the Evangelist.
 Jordan Mearns, Graduate Curatorial Intern, spoke about these two panels in a gallery talk at The Frick Collection. Download this podcast which discusses the panels in great detail.
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Photographs by Michael Bodycomb |
