Sacred Visions: Nineteenth-Century Biblical Art from the Dahesh Museum Collection Opens at MOBIA this Fall

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"Death of Moses" by Alexandre Cabanel
NEW YORK---"Sacred Visions: Nineteenth-Century Biblical Art from the Dahesh Museum Collection", a collaboration between the Dahesh Museum of Art and the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), features approximately 30 religious paintings, drawings, and sculptures that survey the rich diversity of biblical subject matter produced by masters of the academic tradition. On view are works by well-known 19th-century artists including Bonnat, Cabanel, Doré, Delaroche, and Gérôme, as well as their lesser known, but equally gifted contemporaries. [link]

The Museum of Biblical Art: "Sacred Visions: Nineteenth-Century Biblical Art from the Dahesh Museum Collection" (Oct. 18, 2013 – Feb. 16, 2014), 1865 Broadway at 61st Street, New York, NY, (212) 408-1500 or mobia.org

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I look forward to to the exhibition, and also to understanding what distinguishes this collection from those of its sister NYC institutions. While I visited the collections website which explains its has a focus on the work from art academies, that explanation lacks a complete picture. To truly understand such a collection, I suspect one must first experience it. Only then will a visitor understand not only what it is, but just as importantly what it is not..