Threads Of Time: Travel, Trade & Textiles
Threads of Time: Travel, Trade & Textiles is a jewel-box display in the historic Mackelvie Gallery that offers a survey of European art from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Presenting for the first time new acquisitions and recent donations to our Auckland audiences, this exhibition also showcases beloved paintings and sculptures from the permanent collection, some of which have not been on display for several years. Five thematically-driven, Salon-style hangs underline the sumptuous materiality of fabrics, both as depicted subjects in art and as physical supports that sometimes peek through a painting鈥檚 layers of pigment and varnish.
Products of technology and trade, fabrics are cultural artefacts. They are also markers of social status and expressions of individual tastes and sentiments. As such, their depiction in paintings, sculpture and works on paper is the outcome of precise negotiations between artist and client. Interpreting works from the permanent collection through this social and historical lens, Threads of Time shows how the manner fabric is represented in art can offer insights into the politics and culture of the past.
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Threads of Time: Travel, Trade & Textiles is a jewel-box display in the historic Mackelvie Gallery that offers a survey of European art from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Presenting for the first time new acquisitions and recent donations to our Auckland audiences, this exhibition also showcases beloved paintings and sculptures from the permanent collection, some of which have not been on display for several years. Five thematically-driven, Salon-style hangs underline the sumptuous materiality of fabrics, both as depicted subjects in art and as physical supports that sometimes peek through a painting鈥檚 layers of pigment and varnish.
Products of technology and trade, fabrics are cultural artefacts. They are also markers of social status and expressions of individual tastes and sentiments. As such, their depiction in paintings, sculpture and works on paper is the outcome of precise negotiations between artist and client. Interpreting works from the permanent collection through this social and historical lens, Threads of Time shows how the manner fabric is represented in art can offer insights into the politics and culture of the past.
Artists on show
- Alberto Pullicino
- Albrecht Kauw
- Allan Ramsay
- Andrea Locatelli
- Antonio Molinari
- Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove
- Carlo Ceresa
- Caspar Netscher
- Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen
- Dirck Dircksz. van Santvoort
- Emilio Taruffi
- Felice Ficherelli
- Francesco Ciseri
- Frans Floris
- George Chambers
- Gerolamo Giovenone
- Giacomo Francesco Cipper
- Guido Reni
- Hendrik Mommers
- Henri Gascars
- Henry Raeburn
- il Sassoferrato
- Jacopo Amigoni
- Jacques d'Arthois
- James Baker Pyne
- Jan Asselijn
- Jan Boeckhorst
- Johannes Mijtens
- John Callow
- John Nost Sartorius
- Josef Frans Nollekens
- Joseph Nollekens
- Joseph Wright of Derby
- Julius Caesar Ibbetson
- Lavinia Fontana
- Leonardo Coccorante
- Louis-Gabriel Blanchet
- Luca Giordano
- Marco d'Oggiono
- Marco Ricci
- Michael Dahl
- Michele Desubleo
- Pieter Molenaer
- Pietro Paolini
- Renè-Louis Chretièn
- Richard Wilson
- Roelant Savery
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Tilly Kettle
- Tony Fomison
- Vincenzo Spisanelli
- William Beechey
- William Hodges
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