Vecchietta (Lorenzo di Pietro)

Title: Vecchietta

Authors: Giulio Dalvit

Publisher: The Frick Collection in association with Paul Holberton Publishing (2025)

Details: Hardcover, 11 x 9 1/2 in., 352 pages, approx. 200 illustrations

ISBN: 9781913645946

Was Vecchietta the original Renaissance man? Giulio Dalvit, Associate Curator at The Frick Collection and organizer of the special exhibition Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500, explores the only signed work outside of Italy by the fifteenth-century Sienese painter, sculptor, architect, and goldsmith Vecchietta. His extraordinary signature on The Resurrection, one of the centerpieces of the exhibition, tells us about his ambition as an artist across media, paving the way for our understanding of artistic freedom today.

On April 7, 2026, Associate Curator Giulio Dalvit delivered a lecture for Fellows on the fifteenth-century Sienese artist known as Vecchietta. 

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator™, examine Vecchietta’s bronze relief The Resurrection,—the only signed work by the artist outside of Italy—with Assistant Curator of Sculpture Giulio Dalvit. Vecchietta’s depiction of this miracle defies the laws of perspective, with Christ rendered in such high relief that he seems to be emerging from the composition as he comes back to life—an astonishing confluence of making and meaning.