300. Dr. Judy Mann: Senior Curator or European Art to 1800 for the St. Louis Art Museum
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Dr. Judy Mann, Senior Curator or European Art to 1800 for the St. Louis Art Museum, stopped by to talk to Nancy about the exhibition, Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530\\u20131800.
About the Exhibition: In 2000 the Saint Louis Art Museum purchased Cavaliere d\\u2019Arpino\\u2019s Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, an exceptional painting on lapis lazuli. The acquisition of the small, stunning work of art spurred extensive research that culminates in Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530\\u20131800, the first systematic examination of the pan-European practice of this unusual and little-studied artistic tradition. \\u2014\\u2014\\u2014
By 1530 Italian artists had begun to paint portraits and sacred images on stone. At first artists used slate and marble. By the last decades of the 16th century, the repertoire expanded, eventually including alabaster, lapis lazuli, onyx, jasper, agate, and amethyst. In addition to demonstrating the beauty of these works,\\xa0Paintings on Stone\\xa0explains why artists began using stone supports and the role that stone played in the meaning of these endeavors. \\u2014\\u2014\\u2014
Bringing together more than 70 examples by 58 artists,\\xa0Paintings on Stone\\xa0represents major centers of stone painting and features 21 different stones. \\u2014\\u2014\\u2014
Judith W. Mann, the senior curator of European art to 1800. Since joining the museum in 1988, she has reinstalled the collections of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and 18th-century European painting and sculpture three times, and organized two major international exhibitions. In 2022, the museum will organize a major, international exhibition curated by Mann that examines the art of painting on stone, a practice that flourished in Europe\\u2014particularly Italy\\u2014in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 2015, the Association of Art Museum Curators and the American Academy in Rome awarded Mann the Samuel H. Kress Foundation AAMC Affiliated Fellowship in order to allow her to continue her research into painting on stone in Rome.\\u2014\\u2014-
Mann curated \\u201cOrazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy,\\u201d which opened at Rome\\u2019s Palazzo Venezia and later was seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum, as well as the 2012 exhibition \\u201cFederico Barocci: Renaissance Master,\\u201d which was presented at the Saint Louis Art Museum and the National Gallery, London. In recognition for her scholarship relating to the Barocci exhibition and catalogue, Mann received the Association of Art Museum Curators\\u2019 Outstanding Monographic Exhibition Award. She holds a graduate degree and doctorate from Washington University. \\u2014\\u2014\\u2014
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