VIDEO: The MET Restores Tullio Lombardo's 'Adam' for Display
By: Sally Henry Fuller Nov. 09, 2014
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's marble sculpture Adam by Tullio Lombardo (ca. 1455-1532) will return to public view on November 11, 2014-July 2015, following a tragic accident in 2002 and an unprecedented 12-year conservation project. Watch the transformation in the videos below!
It is the first life-sized nude marble statue since antiquity and the most important Italian Renaissance sculpture in North America. Tullio carved Adam in the early 1490s for the monumental tomb of doge Andrea Vendramin, now in the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, and it is the only signed sculpture from that iconic monument. The sculpture and its restoration will be the focus of Tullio Lombardo's Adam: A Masterpiece Restored, the inaugural installation in the Museum's new Venetian Sculpture Gallery.
It will be on exhibition at the New Venetian Sculpture Gallery, Gallery 504, 1st floor.
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