Denver Art Museum Reveals Old Master's

DENVER POST
By Kyle MacMillan

Alvise Vivarini's portraits of St. John the Baptist and St. Jerome from about 1480

COLORADO - Old-master paintings traditionally have been the centerpiece of many art institutions. But at the Denver Art Museum, they share a floor with their American counterparts and objects from two other departments. They tend to be overshadowed by the museum's world-class holdings in such areas as American Indian and Spanish colonial art — and its considerably larger, crowd-pleasing display of Western American works. To help right this seeming imbalance in attention and give visitors an opportunity to see the old-master collection in a new way, the museum is presenting "Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy." The show, which runs through July 31, is by no means a blockbuster — but it is a striking, well-considered look at one of the most creative and prolific periods in art history. [link]