NYC's Museum of Biblical Art Secures Donatello Masterworks From Italy

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Randy Kennedy

Donatello’s “The Evangelist John.” Credit Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore

NEW YORK---New York City, home to a stunning number of Renaissance treasures, has never had a work in a permanent collection by one of the era’s foremost sculptural masters, Donatello, and major pieces by him rarely leave Europe. But for a few months next year, the city will become a veritable Donatello feast, the one stop for a small show of works from the Duomo museum in Florence, Italy, including several sculptures instantly recognizable from art history textbooks but never before seen in America. That the works are coming not to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Frick Collection but to a young noncollecting institution, the Museum of Biblical Art, on the Upper West Side, makes the occasion all the more unusual. [link]

Museum of Biblical Art: "Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces From Florence Cathedral,” (Feb. 20 - June 14, 2015); 1865 Broadway at 61st Street, New York, NY; (212) 408-1500; mobia.org