Ian Wardropper is the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director of The Frick Collection and has organized more than twenty exhibitions in his specialties of European sculpture, earlier decorative arts, and twentieth-century design and decorative arts. Exhibitions he co-organized at the Metropolitan Museum of Art include Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure for the Palaces of Europe (2008) and Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution (2009). Recent publications include European Sculpture, 1400–1900, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011); Bernini: Sculpting in Clay (2012); Limoges Enamels at The Frick Collection (2015); and The Frick Collection: Director's Choice (2015).
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In this personal and engaging guide, Ian Wardropper selects the works that most inspire him from among masterpieces by artists such as Bellini, Constable Fragonard, Goya, El Greco, Ingres, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Whistler, as well as superb examples of French eighteenth-century furniture, Italian Renaissance bronzes and Limoges enamels.